suet
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suet /ˈsuːɪt/
▶noun the hard white fat on the kidneys and loins of cattle, sheep, and other animals, used in making foods.
– derivatives
suety adjective.
suety adjective.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr., from the synonymous word su, from L. sebum ‘tallow’.
'suet' also found in these Oxford entries:
black pudding
- bologna
- cabinet pudding
- Christmas pudding
- dumpling
- haggis
- mincemeat
- plum duff
- plum pudding
- pudding
- roly-poly
- spotted dick
- stearin
- suet pudding
- white pudding
