suet

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈs(j)uːɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

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.

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

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

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

suet m (plural suets)

1. (nautical) southeast
2. (nautical) southeasterly (wind)

suet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of suō

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman suet, siuet, diminutive of seu, from Latin sēbum.

• sewet, sueth, suett, suette, suwet, swet, swete, sywete

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiu̯ɛt/

suet (uncountable)

1. suet

• English: suet
• Scots: shuet

• “seuet, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

suet

1. Alternative form of sute