Quorn

See also: quorn

English

Etymology

Shortened from earlier Quorndon, from Old English cweorndun, from cweorn (“millstone; quern”) +‎ dun (“hill”). The fox hunt, the meat substitute and the town in Australia are named after the village in Leicestershire.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwɔːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k(w)ɔɹn/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n

Proper noun

Quorn

1. (with "the") A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Watcher by the Threshold:

     The House of More has a pretty Georgian paneling through most of the rooms, but in the dining room the walls are level and painted a dull stone color. […] Some photographs of the Quorn hung over the mantelpiece, and five or six drab ancestors filled up the remaining space.

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.

2. A village and civil parish (formerly Quorndon) in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5616).
3. A town in South Australia.
4. A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.
   • 2004, J. L. Clarke, Mary Dougherty Riley, Veronica Dougherty, OCR National Certificate in Health and Social Care: Level 2, page 384:

     It is now easier for a vegetarian to eat sufficient protein because of products such as Quorn, tofu and textured vegetable protein.

   • 2006 October 20, Julian Dibbell, “The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test”, in New York Magazine‎^[1]:

     April brings the main course: a medley of asparagus tips, shiitake mushrooms, and the featured ingredient, an unlikely hybrid of life-giving wholesomeness and bio-industrial hubris known as Quorn.

   • 2011, Rosemary Conley, Rosemary Conley's Amazing Inch Loss Plan, page 257:

     For a vegetarian option, use Quorn pieces instead of prawns.

   • 2023 July 21, Billie Schwab Dunn, “I Tried Wetherspoons Food for the First Time-I Feared I'd Get Scurvy...”, in Daily Star:

     I opted for the vegan breakfast (£4.57), which comes with two Quorn sausages, baked beans, two hash browns, mushroom, tomato, a slice of toast and a vegan spread.

Further reading

• Quorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quorn Hunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quorn, Leicestershire on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Quorn, South Australia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia