grits
/grɪts/plural noun
also treated as sing.
1- US a dish of coarsely ground corn (maize) kernels boiled with water or milk〈美〉粗玉米粉粥。
1.1
- coarsely ground corn kernels from which this dish is made粗玉米粉。
词源
Old English grytt, grytte 'bran， mill dust'， of Germanic origin: related to Dutch grutten, German Grütze, also to GROATS.