单词 | agidi |
释义 | agidin. West African and Caribbean. A gelatinous starchy food made by boiling a paste of (fermented) maize meal or flour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > maize dishes posole1699 succotash1751 Tom Fuller1820 agidi1853 corn on the cob1867 nixtamal1896 ogi1957 1853 Church Missionary Intelligencer Oct. 228 I was immediately tempted with having all sorts of delicacies thrust under my olfactories—..palm wine and pito, agidi, or Indian-corn gruel, and no end of fruits. 1891 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 13 582 I have often seen on a mat by the roadside portions of agidi (maize-flour starch) or bean bread, or cooked yams. 1910 T. J. Alldridge Transformed Colony vi. 49 Agidi is maize soaked and pounded and the starchy substance strained off. It is then boiled and wrapped in leaves. 1976 in J. A. Holm & A. W. Shilling Dict. Bahamian Eng. (1982) 2/2 Agidi was always wrapped in almond leaves. 1984 Jrnl. Developing Areas 19 74 Eko (also known as agidi) is a popular and inexpensive cold food made of boiled fermented maize meal. 2003 C. N. Adichie Purple Hibiscus (2004) 54 Hawkers descended on our car, pushing boiled eggs, roasted cashew nuts, bottled water, bread, okpa, agidi into every window of the car. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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