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‖ egusi, n.|egusi|
Also egussi.
[Yoruba.]
In Nigeria and neighbouring countries: the seeds of the water-melon, esp. ground or crushed and used for food.
1925Bull. Imperial Inst. XXIII. ii. 153 Seeds of Citrullus vulgaris were received from the Commissioner of Lands and Forests, Sierra Leone, under the name of ‘Kogai’ or ‘Egusi’, in August, 1923. 1958C. Achebe Things fall Apart xix. 149 There was foo-foo and yam pottage, egusi soup and bitter-leaf soup. 1964E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds xiv. 141 The Shepherd's Bush market has a shop devoted wholly to West African foods..like..obelawo and egusi, garden eggs and fou-fou. 1984Barr & Levy Official Foodie Handbk. iii. 93/1 To the strip on 10th Avenue around 42nd Street for Caribbean and African stuff, from egussi to smoke-dried Haitian shrimps. |