Definition of paradoxical. 1  1a : of the nature of a paradox the paradoxical theory that global warming will lead to the next Ice Ageb : inclined to paradoxes. 2  2 : not being the normal or usual kind a paradoxical pulse paradoxical drug reactions.
10 hilariously insightful foreign words. Hominy refers to corn kernels without their germ and their hull, or bran. The germ and hull might be removed by soaking the corn in a special type of solution or by crushing the kernels and then sifting them out.
Hominy became especially popular in the South, where it is is ground to make âhominy gritsâ or âgrits.â In the South, grits were once so common a starch at meals that they were known as âSouthern potatoes.â. In the Southwest hominy became part of a different culinary tradition.