sparerib
A cut of meat including the rib bonesA cut of meat including the rib bones.
» Tom doesn't like greasy food such as spareribs.
Tom mag kein fettiges Essen wie zum Beispiel Rippchen.
Meaning
1 sensesA cut of meat including the rib bones.
Schälrippchen, Rippchen, Leiterchen
a cut of pork ribs with much of the meat trimmed off
Examples
3 sentencesTom doesn't like greasy food such as spareribs.
deTom mag kein fettiges Essen wie zum Beispiel Rippchen.
I will eat sweet and sour spareribs tonight.
Sherie is cooking some spareribs coated in paprika sauce.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Probably borrowed from Low German ribbesper, from Middle Low German ribbespêr (“spare-ribsProbably borrowed from Low German ribbesper, from Middle Low German ribbespêr (“spare-ribs”), from ribbe (“rib”) + sper (“spear; spit”), from Old Saxon ribbi + sper, from Proto-Germanic *ribją + *speru. The word was transposed, with the first element becoming confused with English spare due to folk-etymology. Compare also English ribspare (rare, modern uses dialectal).
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