[
US
/ˈhmɔŋ, ˈmɔŋ, həˈmɔŋ/
]
NOUN
- a language of uncertain affiliation spoken by the Hmong
- a people living traditionally in mountain villages in southern China and adjacent areas of Vietnam and Laos and Thailand; many have emigrated to the United States
ADJECTIVE
- of or related to the Hmong people or their language or their culture
How To Use Hmong In A Sentence
- Ask the fishmonger to bone the fish for you.
- Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
- The Hmong are the mountain peoples of Vietnam, Laos and Southern China. treated as savages by the ruling peoples of Vietnam, they were staunch allies of the US during the Vietnam war and after the fall of South Vietnam in 75, the US accepted a fair number as refugees. "We have to be very careful. We want professors to speak with what they see as their truths."
- Dead fish, huge things that would grace any fishmonger's slab, could be had by sticking your hand in the water. Times, Sunday Times
- Andy Ricker, who won the 2011 James Beard award for best chef in the Northwest, shops the stalls of Hmong farmers at his Portland, Oregon, market to find fiddlehead ferns, vegetables like "phak khanaa" or Chinese broccoli, exotic, untranslatable herbs and crucial ingredients like cilantro root for the innovative Asian cuisine he turns out at his restaurant Pok Pok. Chefs talk about unusual farmers market finds
- If you are unsure about how to cut open a scallop or sea urchin, fillet a brill or clean an octopus, just ask your local fishmonger to do it for you.
- Some of these Hmong have since fled from the village, presumably for the border.
- Further into Chinatown there are more traditional market-type shops, including fishmongers with plastic buckets of eels, poulterers with flattened ducks and grocers with rambutans, lychees and other tropical Asian fruits.
- In a pinch, try buying rockweed from your fishmonger; it's used to pack shellfish and is often abundant where seafood is sold. Happy as a Clambake
- He first gutted them, in the old fishmonger's style that leaves the fish looking whole. Times, Sunday Times
