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Porterhouse   Listen
noun
Porterhouse  n.  A house where porter is sold.
Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Porterhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... flutter. I've had nothing but work, work, work. They talk about the dignity of labor. I tell you there ain't no dignity in that sort of labor. My other choice is to herd with the robbers, and I herd with them. I play that choice wide open to win. I get the automobiles, and the porterhouse steaks, and ...
— Burning Daylight • Jack London

... he cried. "I've cracked the door trying to rouse you. And we've got a caribou porterhouse two inches ...
— God's Country—And the Woman • James Oliver Curwood

... of the country boy, who went to Boston for the first time to see the sights. As he wandered around he became hungry, and, entering a restaurant began to experiment with strange dishes. He ate first a porterhouse steak, then some fried oysters, then a lobster salad, a lot of pickles, ice cream, cake and bologna sausage, drank a bottle of champagne and retired to his lodgings, and dreamed that he was lying on Boston Common, and that the devil was sitting on his stomach, holding ...
— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor



Words linked to "Porterhouse" :   beef loin, porterhouse steak, beefsteak



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