单词 | mama put |
释义 | mama putn. Nigerian English. A street vendor, typically a woman, selling cooked food at low prices from a handcart or stall. Also: a street stall or roadside restaurant run by such a vendor; (as a mass noun) the type of food sold by such vendors. Cf. buka n., bukateria n. ΚΠ 1979 Jrnl. Environmental Managem. 9 206 The municipality's solid waste is made up of putrescible materials generated from food processing in the homes, ubiquitous road-side eating places popularly known as ‘Mama-put’, and market places. 2006 M. H. Ditmore Encycl. Prostitution & Sex Work 533 West African long-distance truck drivers..frequent popular roadside eating houses and bars called ‘Mama Puts’. 2012 C. Onuzo Spider King's Daughter 100 The Mama Put approached with a platter of meat. ‘You nah don finish? You no want meat?’ 2016 @ivienobody 6 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 10 July 2019) It's cheaper to eat mama put nowadays than cook. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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