anguine resembling or relating to snakes. anguilliform eel-shaped. grig a grasshopper or cricket; a young eel; a lively person. sniggle to fish for eels with a baited hook. spitchcock a eel: halved, cut up, and broiled or fried. ort an uneaten piece of food. (usu. pl.) flummery boiled oatmeal or flour; a type of fruit custard; any of various dishes made with flour, milk, eggs, etc.; foolishness. duff a boiled or steamed flour pudding. [var. of |dough|] duff decomposing organic matter on the forest floor. [fig. use of |duff|] duff (slang) the buttocks. [fig. use of |duff|] prove (of dough) to rise. burgoo thick oatmeal, soup, or stew. brawn boar's meat, esp. boiled and pickled. fress v.i. to eat, esp. heavily. shaddock an Oriental citrus fruit. also |forbidden fruit|. saloop a hot drink of milk, sugar, and salep or sassafras. salep the dried tubers of certain orchids. soja soybean. prairie oyster a raw egg or its yolk, seasoned with salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, etc., and taken as a hangover remedy; a mountain oyster.