mannish watern.
/ˌmanɪʃ ˈwɔːtə/, U.S. /ˌmænɪʃ ˈwɔdər/, /ˌmænɪʃ ˈwɑdər/, Caribbean English /ˌmanɪʃ ˈwɔːtʌ/, /ˌmanɪʃ ˈwaːta/ In Jamaican cookery: a thick soup made with goat offal and other ingredients such as yams, potatoes, green bananas, and dumplings, typically served at social gatherings and popularly believed to have aphrodisiac properties.
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1968 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 3 Dec. 28/8 For eating pleasure the usual curried goat was served and a truly Jamaican concoction ‘mannish water’ was zestfully devoured by the men.
1999 A. Levy Fruit of Lemon 293 Vincent was accepting a cup of steaming mannish water.
2020 @VI_Hamilton 9 May in twitter.com (accessed 14 May 2020) I hit the market yesterday for goat so I can make mannish water this weekend.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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