Meanings
comparative more gritten · superlative most gritten
- rareMade of or consisting of grits.
The Walkers make their bread from cornmeal, which they grate on a piece of tin punched full of holes and fastened to a board. This is known as "gritten" bread.
1919, Illustrated World, volume 32, page 7321 more example
He would go out into one of his cornfields and select a few ears of corn, the kernels of which could be barely dented with the thumb nail. These ears were converted into "gritten cornbread."
1943, Bess Virginia Hicks Ehrmann, Back Trails of Indiana, page 160
Origin
- Middle English*grytten
- Englishgritten
From Middle English *grytten, grutten (“made of bran, coarse”), equivalent to grit + -en (“made of”).
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
gritten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gritten
“gritten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gritten. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gritten,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gritten.
Source: gritten on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.