| 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. |