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livering en · NOUN

Etymology

From liver + -ing?

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.
   • Livering puddings white-skinn'd. c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:
   • O' Sundays they stuffed their puddings with puddings, chitterlings, links, Bologna sausages, forced-meats, liverings, hogs' haslets, young quails, and teals. You must also always add cheese for the first course, and mustard for the last. 1564, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translating François Rabelais, The Fifth Book, Chapter XXVII:

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