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pigs' feet

American  

plural noun

Cooking.
  1. the feet of swine cooked and marinated in brine, sugar, spices, etc.


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

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

Among the test foods were fourteen-year-old pea soup and beef stew, and twelve-year-old corned beef and pigs’ feet.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2013

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