| 释义 |
‖ poipoi|ˈpɔɪpɔɪ|
Also poee-poee, poi-poi, popoi.
[Polynesian word.]
A Polynesian dish, usu. made from fermented bread-fruit (see quot. 1829). Also attrib. Cf. poi1.
1829W. Ellis Polynesian Researches I. xiii. 377 The most general dish in the Southern Islands is what they call popoi, nearly resembling the poe of the Sandwich Islands. It is made with the ripe mountain plantain, either raw or baked, beaten up into a paste or jelly, and diluted with cocoa-nut milk. Another kind of popoi is made with bread-fruit, or opio, beaten up and diluted with cocoa-nut or plain water. 1846H. Melville Narr. Residence Marquesas Islands xv. 128 The great staple articles of food into which the breadfruit is converted by these natives are known respectively by the names of Amar and Poee-Poee. 1888M. I. Stevenson Let. 25 Aug. in M. C. Balfour From Saranac to Marquesas (1903) 121 Madame Stanislas gave Fanny a very finely carved poi-poi bowl of mio wood. 1910F. W. Christian Eastern Pacific Lands xii. 160 To a European palate Popoi tastes like an acid custard. 1919Century Mag. Aug. 450/1 The players halted briefly to eat a bowl of poipoi. 1970I. Goldman Ancient Polynesian Society vii. 125 The fermented breadfruit mash (poipoi) stored well in leaf-lined pits. 1974T. Heyerdahl Fatu-Hiva iii. 122 Poipoi, the staple diet in most of Polynesia. Nowhere else was poipoi made as strong as in the Marquesas group. |