Cornbread vs Pone - What's the difference?
cornbread | pone |
(legal, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
(wikipedia pone)
(Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, page 11:
As nouns the difference between cornbread and pone
is that cornbread is bread made from cornmeal while pone is a writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.pone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pone and its source, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) apones, .Noun
(en noun)- ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone ,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.
