"hushpuppy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps because they were once thrown to hungry dogs to quieten them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hushpuppies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hushpuppy (plural hushpuppies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Maize (food)",
          "orig": "en:Maize (food)",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Grains",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Grasses",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Commelinids",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Plants",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small deep-fried cornmeal cake."
      ],
      "id": "en-hushpuppy-en-noun-DRASh0-m",
      "links": [
        [
          "deep-fried",
          "deep-fried"
        ],
        [
          "cornmeal",
          "cornmeal"
        ],
        [
          "cake",
          "cake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US) A small deep-fried cornmeal cake."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "corn-dodger"
        },
        {
          "word": "hush puppy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "hushpuppy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hushpuppy"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Perhaps because they were once thrown to hungry dogs to quieten them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hushpuppies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hushpuppy (plural hushpuppies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English 3-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
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        "English nouns",
        "Southern US English",
        "en:Foods",
        "en:Maize (food)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small deep-fried cornmeal cake."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deep-fried",
          "deep-fried"
        ],
        [
          "cornmeal",
          "cornmeal"
        ],
        [
          "cake",
          "cake"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US) A small deep-fried cornmeal cake."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "hushpuppy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "corn-dodger"
    },
    {
      "word": "hush puppy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hushpuppy"
}