Quorn

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English

Etymology

Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (“millstone; quern”) +‎ dun (“hill”). The fox hunt, the meat substitute[1][2] and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.

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Proper noun

Quorn

  1. (with "the") A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold:
      The House of More has a pretty Georgian paneling through most of the rooms, but in the dining room the walls are level and painted a dull stone color. […] Some photographs of the Quorn hung over the mantelpiece, and five or six drab ancestors filled up the remaining space.
    • 1960, P G Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
  2. A village and civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5616). [3]
  3. A town in South Australia.
  4. A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.
    • 2004, J. L. Clarke, Mary Dougherty Riley, Veronica Dougherty, OCR National Certificate in Health and Social Care: Level 2, page 384:
      It is now easier for a vegetarian to eat sufficient protein because of products such as Quorn, tofu and textured vegetable protein.
    • 2006 October 20, Julian Dibbell, “The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test”, in New York Magazine‎:
      April brings the main course: a medley of asparagus tips, shiitake mushrooms, and the featured ingredient, an unlikely hybrid of life-giving wholesomeness and bio-industrial hubris known as Quorn.
    • 2011, Rosemary Conley, Rosemary Conley's Amazing Inch Loss Plan, page 257:
      For a vegetarian option, use Quorn pieces instead of prawns.
    • 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:
      I opted for the vegan breakfast (£4.57), which comes with two Quorn sausages, baked beans, two hash browns, mushroom, tomato, a slice of toast and a vegan spread.

References

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of English (2010), page 1459
  2. ^ “Quorn”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. ^ Parish map (Leicestershire)

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