sewet
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suet — noun Etymology: Middle English sewet, from Anglo French suet, siuet, from seu, su hard animal fat, from Latin sebum Date: 14th century the hard fat about the kidneys and loins in beef and mutton that yields tallow … New Collegiate Dictionary
suet — suety, adj. /sooh it/, n. the hard fatty tissue about the loins and kidneys of beef, sheep, etc., used in cooking or processed to yield tallow. [1350 1400; ME sewet < AF *suet, equiv. to su , sew ( < L sebum tallow) + et ET] * * * … Universalium
suet — su|et [ˈsu:ıt, ˈsju:ıt US ˈsu: ] n [U] [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: From an unrecorded Anglo French sewet, from sue, from Latin sebum tallow, suet ] hard fat from around an animal s ↑kidneys, used in cooking in Britain … Dictionary of contemporary English
suet — [14] Suet goes back ultimately to Latin sēbum ‘tallow’, which also produced English sebaceous [18]. This passed into Anglo Norman as seu or sue, of which a presumed diminutive form *sewet gave English suet. => SEBACEOUS … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
Bosheit — 1. Alle Bosheit ist ein Scherz gegen eines Weibes Bosheit. – Pred. Sal. 25, 26; Schulze, 164; Lange, 1596. 2. Bosheit hat einen bösen Nachdruck. – Körte, 698. 3. Bosheit ist ein schlimm Handwerk, sie muss allezeit die Hefen von ihrem eigenen… … Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon
suet — [14] Suet goes back ultimately to Latin sēbum ‘tallow’, which also produced English sebaceous [18]. This passed into Anglo Norman as seu or sue, of which a presumed diminutive form *sewet gave English suet. Cf.⇒ SEBACEOUS … Word origins
