| 释义 |
‖ posho East Africa.|ˈpɒʃəʊ|
[Swahili, = daily rations.]
a. Daily rations given to porters on safari.
b. A kind of maize flour; a porridge made from this. Also attrib.
1892M. French-Sheldon Sultan to Sultan v. 118 The method of dealing out rice, which is carried for posho or rations..is somewhat peculiar. Ibid., Porters, carrying the heavy loads, are paid the least and receive the smallest posho. 1927Chambers's Jrnl. XVII. 761/1 The safari boys were squatting round the cooking-pots, stirring their ‘posho’. 1946G. Hanley Monsoon Victory x. 106 In Africa they [sc. askaris] ate posho, which is maize flour cooked into a porridge. 1964C. Willock Enormous Zoo ix. 157 He searched two fully occupied huts in the labour lines looking for posho. 1971E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 13 Apr. 9/3 An Assistant Minister for Agriculture..was officially opening a posho mill. 1974Observer (Colour Suppl.) 28 Apr. 45/3 Posho (ground corn on the cob)... It is cooked with water to make a kind of porridge. 1975Times 17 Nov. 13/7 The [Ugandan] guards were already sharing their beans and posho and lumps of lean meat with me. 1977H. Innes Big Footprints ii. i. 122 Sacks of maize flour they called posho. |