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单词 mama put
释义

mama putn.

Brit. /ˌmamə ˈpʊt/, U.S. /ˌmɑmə ˈpʊt/, West African English /ˌmama ˈput/
Inflections: Plural mama puts, unchanged.
Forms: also with capital initials. 1900s– mama put, 1900s– mama-put, 1900s– mamaput.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mama n.1, put v.
Etymology: < mama n.1 + put v.Probably originally reflecting the first part of a request ‘Mama, put..!’ (with the verb in the imperative), asking for food to be put for (i.e. given to) the customer.
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.
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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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