pigfoot
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
pigfoot (plural pigfoots)
- A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native to Europe.
- Synonym: black scorpionfish
- 2003, Francis Davis, The History of the Blues:
- 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.
- Any similar fish
References edit
- “pigfoot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.