suet

See also: süt

English

Etymology

From Middle English sewet, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suet, siuet, from Old French seu, from Latin sebum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s(j)uːɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

suet (countable and uncountable, plural suets)

1. The fatty tissue that surrounds and protects the kidneys; that of sheep and cattle is used in cooking and in making tallow.
   • 1996, Laura Erickson, Sharing the Wonder of Birds with Kids:

     Many seed-eating birds also need animal fat and protein which they obtain from insects, animal carcasses, and suet.

   • 1998, Alan Pistorius, Everything You Need to Know About Birding and Backyard Bird Attraction:

     Some jays, chickadees, nuthatches, and titmice regularly feed at suet; others seem never to indulge.

Translations

fat

• Armenian: երկիմաճարպ (erkimačarp), ճրագու (hy) (čragu)
• Azerbaijani: piy (az)
• Catalan: sèu (ca) m
• Czech: lůj (cs) m
• Dutch: niervet (nl) n
• Faroese: mørur m
• Finnish: tali (fi), ihra (fi)
• French: suif (fr) f, graisse de rognon (de bœuf) f
• Galician: sebo m
• German: Flomenschmalz m
• Hungarian: faggyú (hu)
• Icelandic: mör (is) m
• Italian: sugna f
• Japanese: スエット (suetto)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەز‎ (bez)

  Northern Kurdish: bez (ku)

• Latin: arvina f
• Maori: taupā
• Norman: graîsse dé rîngnon f
• Persian: پیه‎ (fa) (pih), وزد‎ (vazd)
• Polish: sadło (pl) n, łój (pl) m
• Portuguese: sebo (pt) m
• Russian: нутряно́е са́ло n (nutrjanóje sálo), по́чечное са́ло n (póčečnoje sálo), са́ло (ru) n (sálo)
• Scottish Gaelic: saill f
• Serbo-Croatian: лој m, loj (sh) m
• Slovak: loj m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: łoj m

• Spanish: unto (es)

References

• suet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “suet”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• Suet in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Suet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Suet on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• ETUs, TEUs, TUEs, Tues, Utes, tues, utes

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Latin

Verb

suet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of suō

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Middle English

Noun

suet

1. Alternative form of sute