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▪ I. ‖ piri-piri1|ˈpɪərɪˈpɪərɪ| A Maori name applied to several plants, esp. to Haloragis micrantha, a shrubby plant found in India, south-eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand; also to Acæna Sanguisorba, used as tea and as a medicine, called by the colonists by corruption biddy-biddy. (In the former sense misprinted piri-jiri (see A. Cunningham in Ann. Nat. Hist. (1839) III. 30), an error repeated in some dictionaries.)
1866Treas. Bot. 567 s.v. Haloragis (Piri-jiri). 1880N.Z. Country Jrnl. XII. 195 (Morris s.v. Biddy-biddy), Piri-piri..by the settlers has been..corrupted into biddy-biddy... These tenacious burrs of the piri-piri. 1884Miller Plant-n., Piri-jiri-shrub. ▪ II. piri-piri2|ˈpɪrɪ ˈpɪrɪ| [Origin obscure; perh. ad. Swahili pilipili, pepper.] A sauce made with red peppers. Also attrib. or as adj. and quasi-adv.
1964H. Holthausen Chicken goes around World 71 Frango Piri-piri (Chicken in Piri-piri sauce). Ibid. 72 Preheat the grill and put the piri-piri chicken in the immediate vicinity of the heat... Baste the chicken well..with the remaining piri-piri. 1968C. Burke Elephant across Border ii. 68 The ‘Camarões Pequenos’, just..a few miles north of Lourenco Marques..made the best piri-piri prawns on the whole coast. Ibid. iii. 115 I'm going to have me a dozen giant prawns, charcoal-grilled, without piri-piri, but with lemon and butter sauce. 1969M. Tripp Malice & Maternal Instinct iv. 28 They specialise in Spanish and Portuguese here... How about galinha piri-piri. 1970G. Croudace Scarlet Bikini vi. 68 If yer gennelmen'll only bring up some rock lobster, I'll give it yer for lunch, piri-piri with rice. 1973Times 17 Feb. (Mozambique Suppl.) p. iv/6 (Advt.), The sauce piri-piri is made with red peppers. |