pigs' feet
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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The translation to "dirty beans" comes from the idea that so many different pork products — from pork shoulder to bacon to pigs' feet — can be added to the slow-cooked stewy beans.
From Salon ● May 4, 2022
Chinese grandmas braise pigs’ feet with ginger, which may restore calcium to a woman’s depleted bones.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2021
There was a grocery store hawking dragon fruit and pigs’ feet, an underground DVD shop stocked with action flicks.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2018
Through collard greens, cornbread, okra, ham-hocks, chitterlings and pigs’ feet, neither can stop upping the ante.
From Economist ● May 5, 2016
Though he wasn’t supposed to suture anyone, he’d practiced stitching on pigs’ feet till his hands ached, till each stitch was tight and A-plus perfect.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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