Smothering (food) A plate lunch of smothered steak and gravy served over boiled white rice from Garys Grocery in Lafayette, Louisiana. Smothering meat, seafood or vegetables is a cooking technique used in both Cajun and Creole cuisines of Louisiana.
An acronym is an abbreviation, used as a word, which is formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. Usually these components are individual letters (as in NATO or laser) or parts of words or names (as in Benelux).hile initial letters are commonly used to form an acronym, the original definition was a word made from the initial letters or syllables of other words, for example UNIVAC from UNIVersal Automatic Computer. In English, acronyms pronounced as words may be a 20th-century phenomenon.
plural acronyms an abbreviation formed by usually initial letters taken from a word or series of words that is itself pronounced as a word such as ram radar or scuba sometimes contrasted with initialism