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tapioca|tæpɪˈəʊkə|
Forms: 8–9 tipioca, 9 tabiaca, (tapiaca), tapioca.
[a. Pg., Sp., F. tapioca, a. Tupi-Guarani tipioca; f. tipi residue, dregs, + og, ók to squeeze out. (Cavalcante in Skeat.)]
a. A starch used for food, the prepared flour of the roots of the cassava plant. Also attrib.
[1612Capt. Smith Map Virginia 13 The chiefe roote they haue for foode is called Tockawhoughe... Raw it is no better then poison, and being roasted except it be tender..it will prickle and torment the throat extreamly. 1648Marcgrave Hist. Nat. Brasil. 67 Fecula albissima, quam indigenæ vocant Tipioja, Tipiaca & Tipiabica.] 1707Sloane Voy. Jamaica I. 131 The juice evaporated over the fire gives the Tipioca meal. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Tipioca, a name given..to a sort of cream or flower made from the yucca or manihot-root..after expressing the juice. 1792Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 79/2 Starch, which the Brasilians export in little lumps under the name of tapioca. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 253 Tapioca is the farina, obtained by subsidence in a very fine state, after washing the pulp of the root of the Cassava, which grows in South America. 1837W. Tayler Diary 14 May in J. Burnett Useful Toil (1974) ii. 181 They had two soles fried with saws..a tabiaca pudding, cheese and butter. 1859D. Bunce Travels with Dr. Leichhardt 107 Christmas day..tapioca pudding, each man having as much as he could eat. 1869R. F. Burton Highl. Brazil II. 39 The sediment of the juice that comes from the mass is called tipioca (our tapioca) and the liquor is thrown away. 1891Kipling Life's Handicap vii. 169 Smoked tapioca pudding.
b. In generalized application.
1856Farmer's Mag. Nov. 409 Properly granulated and dried, potato meal forms an excellent tapioca. |