pemmican
/'pemikən/
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Definition
- Noun:
- A concentrated food mixture: A traditional, high-energy food made by pounding lean, dried meat (often game such as bison, deer, or elk) into a fine powder and then mixing it with melted fat. It is a preserved, portable foodstuff.
- A condensed or concentrated form of something: (Figurative) Something that is dense, concentrated, or packed with substance, such as a concise summary or a very rich piece of information.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Literal):
- The explorers survived the harsh winter by eating pemmican.
- Pemmican was a staple food for many Plains tribes, providing essential nutrients on long journeys.
- Noun (Figurative):
- His lecture was intellectual pemmican, dense with ideas and difficult to digest all at once.
- The report is a pemmican of the year's most critical financial data.
Advanced Usage
- "To make pemmican": The process of creating this food.
- They learned how to make pemmican from dried bison meat and berries.
- Used to describe extreme conciseness.
- His writing style is so compressed it's like literary pemmican.
Variants and Related Words
- Pemican: An alternate, less common spelling of the same word.
- Jerky: A related food of dried meat strips, but not pounded and mixed with fat like pemmican.
- Biltong: A similar air-dried meat product from Southern Africa.
Synonyms
- Concentrated food
- Travel ration
- Meat cake (descriptive)
- (Figurative) Condensation, Digest, Compendium
Related Phrases
- Pemmican bag: A bag used to store or carry pemmican.
- The pemmican was kept safe in a leather pemmican bag.
Related Idioms
- To be (like) pemmican: To be very dense, rich, or concentrated in content.
- That philosophy text is pemmican; you can only read a few pages at a time.
Noun
- lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians