livering

English

Etymology

From liver +‎ -ing?

Noun

livering (plural liverings)

1. (obsolete) A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork.
   • 1564, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux (translating François Rabelais, The Fifth Book, Chapter XXVII:

     O' Sundays they stuffed their puddings with puddings, chitterlings, links, Bologna sausages, forced-meats, liverings, hogs' haslets, young quails, and teals. You must also always add cheese for the first course, and mustard for the last.

   • c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624:

     Livering puddings white-skinn'd.

References

• “livering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Vierling, reliving, reviling, riveling, vierling