su·et

(so͞o′ĭt)

The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman *suet, accusative of sue, tallow, variant of Old French sieu, from Latin sēbum.]

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suet

(ˈsuːɪt; ˈsjuːɪt)

1. (Biochemistry) a hard waxy fat around the kidneys and loins in sheep, cattle, etc, used in cooking and making tallow

2. (Cookery) a hard waxy fat around the kidneys and loins in sheep, cattle, etc, used in cooking and making tallow

[C14: from Old French seu, from Latin sēbum]

ˈsuety adj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

su•et

(ˈsu ɪt)

n.

the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking and for tallow.

[1350–1400; < Anglo-French *suet=su-, sew < Latin sēbum tallow + -et -et]

su′et•y, adj.

suet

The fat around beef and lamb kidneys and loins.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

suet - hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep

edible fat - oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue

suet

noun

Adipose tissue:

fat.

Translations

شَحْم يُغَطِّي كِليتي الضَّأْن

lůj

talg

Talg

grasa

suif

faggyú

mör, innanfita

grasso

lajus

nieru tauki

nyrefett

loj

iç yağı

牛、羊的板油

suet

[sʊɪt] N → sebo m
suet pudding → pudín m a base de sebo

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

suet

[ˈsuːɪt] n → suif m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

suet

n → Nierenfett nt, → Nierentalg m; suet pudding (sweet) im Wasserbad gekochte Süßspeise, zu der Nierenfett verwendet wird (savoury) mit Nierenfett zubereitete Pastete

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

suet

[ˈsʊɪt] n → grasso di rognone

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

suet

(ˈsuːit) noun

the hard fat from around the kidneys of an ox or sheep.

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`You are old,' said the youth, `and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak-- Pray how did you manage to do it?'

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Thank gracious goodness heavins, I've found him!' With these incoherent exclamations, the young woman burst into another fit of crying, and got so dreadfully hysterical, that a couple of women who came up at the moment asked a butcher's boy with a shiny head of hair anointed with suet, who was also looking on, whether he didn't think he had better run for the doctor.

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"It is because I have taught your fathers better." Long-Beard thrust his hairy paw into the bear meat and drew out a handful of suet, which he sucked with a meditative air.

Long-Beard dipped into the bear-carcass and sucked with toothless gums at a fist of suet.

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said Jurgis' friend; the things that went into the mixture were tripe, and the fat of pork, and beef suet, and hearts of beef, and finally the waste ends of veal, when they had any.

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"They are a merry couple," said the Tinker, "for one is as lean as an old wife's spindle, and the other as fat as a suet pudding."

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Firstly, the Philanthropists were in very bad training: much too fleshy, and presenting, both in face and figure, a superabundance of what is known to Pugilistic Experts as Suet Pudding.

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"The fault of Euphemia is that she will not, simply will not, chop the suet sufficiently small."

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For a moment his small eyes bulged like currants in the suet of his face; the next, he had pocketed his pistols on a professional instinct, and was upon us with his fists.

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The hills sweated the ghi and sugar suet off his bones; the dry air, taken sobbingly at the head of cruel passes, firmed and built out his upper ribs; and the tilted levels put new hard muscles into calf and thigh.

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Pour the dates and the liquid into a bowl and add the suet, flour, vanilla and sugar.

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