livering

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noun

A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.

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Meanings

nounlivering (plural liverings)

plural liverings

  1. obsoleteA 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
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    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

Origin

From liver + -ing?

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APA

livering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/livering

MLA

“livering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/livering. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “livering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/livering.

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