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pone
1[ pohn ]
noun
, South Midland and Southern U.S.
- Also called pone bread. a baked or fried bread usually made of cornmeal.
- a loaf or oval-shaped cake of any type of bread, especially cornbread.
pone
2[ pohn ]
noun
, Cards.
- the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
- the player who opposes the dealer in a game with two players.
pone
1/ ˈpəʊnɪ; pəʊn /
noun
- cards the player to the right of the dealer, or the nondealer in two-handed games
pone
2/ pəʊn /
noun
- Also calledpone breadcorn pone bread made of maize
- a loaf or cake of this
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pone1
An Americanism dating back to 1605–15; from Virginia Algonquian ( English spelling) apones, appoans, poan, from Proto-Algonquian apwa·n (unattested) “thing roasted or baked”
Origin of pone2
1885–90; < Latin pōne, 2nd person singular imperative of pōnere to place
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pone1
C19: from Latin: put!, that is, play, from ponere to put
Origin of pone2
C17: from Algonquian; compare Delaware apán baked
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Example Sentences
I des wish you look at dat pone er co'n-bread, honey, en dem ar greens, en see ef dey aint got Remus writ some'rs on um.
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The supper was a simple one, consisting of corn pone and buttermilk, bacon and scrambled eggs.
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Some of the boys, whose hunger was chronic, would begin on theirs and never stop until the last pone had been eaten.
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A fire was lighted, and each hunter displayed his pone of bread, along with a flask of whiskey.
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He enjoyed the breakfast of very hard corn pone and bacon, and took out his beloved watch.
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