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Definition of Porcupine ball
1. Noun. Meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Porcupine Ball
Literary usage of Porcupine ball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"eel; iasg, a fish: Welsh, ball-asg,* a porcupine; ball-awg, a hedgehog. The German
igel, hedgehog, (Ang.-Sax. igil,) is undoubtedly so called from its sharp ..."
2. Holme Lee's Fairy Tales by Holme Lee (1869)
"... then Larkspur, buoyant and light-hearted as ever, assuring the agonised Leader
that he would roll himself into a porcupine-ball, and thus tempt the Ogre ..."
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