Pigfoot

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native to Europe.

    "The pigfoot is commonly thought of as "soul" food, the assumption being that it and hog jowls and the like were something Southern blacks developed a taste for out of necessity, on account of whites saving all the good parts of the pig for themselves."

  2. 2
    Any similar fish.

Synonyms

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black scorpionfish

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"The pigfoot is commonly thought of as "soul" food, the assumption being that it and hog jowls and the like were something Southern blacks developed a taste for out of necessity, on account of whites saving all the good parts of the pig for themselves."

Etymology

From pig + foot.

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