| 释义 |
‖ pitto|ˈpɪtəʊ|
Forms: 7 poitou, 8 potoe, putto, 9 pito, pitto, pittu.
[ad. Dahom. kpitu.]
The native name of a kind of beer, made in West Africa, from fermented maize or rice; maize-beer.
1670Villault Guinea 168 A kind of small beer, which they call poitou. 1725J. Houstoun Guinea 53 Drinking palm-wine or potoe. 1737J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 111 Beer brewed from Indian corn pretty much in use here called putto. 1882Burton & Cameron To Gold Coast (1883) I. x. 293 Pitto, hopless beer, the pombe of the East Coast. 1905R. A. Freeman Gold. Pool 213 An old woman that hath drunk too much pittu. |