α. 1800s meele, 1800s meeli, 1800s meilie, 1800s meli, 1800s melie, 1800s miele, 1800s mili, 1800s milice (plural), 1800s milie, 1800s mily, 1800s– mielie, 1900s– milli.
β. 1800s mealea, 1800s meali, 1800s mealy, 1800s– mealie, 1900s– meally.
单词 | mealie |
释义 | mealien.α. 1800s meele, 1800s meeli, 1800s meilie, 1800s meli, 1800s melie, 1800s miele, 1800s mili, 1800s milice (plural), 1800s milie, 1800s mily, 1800s– mielie, 1900s– milli. β. 1800s mealea, 1800s meali, 1800s mealy, 1800s– mealie, 1900s– meally. South African. 1. In plural, as a mass noun: maize, Indian corn. Also as a count noun: a maize ear or corncob.See also stamped mealies n. at stamped adj. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > maize maizea1544 Turkey corn1597 turkey wheat1598 Indian corn1604 Indian1641 Turkish wheat1670 mealies1801 kanga1843 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > maize Turkey corn1597 turkey wheat1598 Indian corn1604 Indian1641 Turkish wheat1670 mealies1801 kanga1843 the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [adjective] > maize Indian1608 mealies1855 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [adjective] > of maize Indian corn1604 mealies1855 α. β. 1835 C. T. Bailie Let. 18 Apr. in U. Long Chron. J. Goldswain (Van Riebeeck Soc.) (1946) I. 133 The Caffer cornfields..were filled with pumpkins & watermelons interspersed..amongst the Caffer corn & mealies.1837 ‘N. Polson’ Subaltern's Sick Leave 104 This meal is similar to the dinner with the addition of stewed fruit and mealies or Indian corn stewed in milk.1853 F. Galton Narr. Explorer Trop. S. Afr. vi. 182 The Ovampo had little pipkins to cook in, and eat corn (milice) steeped in hot water.1855 J. W. Colenso Ten Weeks in Natal p. vi The second range of land..furnishing abundant crops of hay, oats, mealies, or Indian corn, and barley.1891 H. J. Duckitt Hilda's ‘Where is it?’ of Recipes 165 Take cabbage cut in small pieces; green ‘mealies’ (heads of Indian corn) in rings; tiny carrots [etc.].1916 L. D. Flemming Fool on Veld 93 You planted a bag of mealies and got anything from 100 to 200 in return.1973 Weekend Post (Port Elizabeth) 27 Oct. (Parade section) 14 Though it is not indigenous to South Africa, the mealie could almost qualify as our national vegetable.1991 T. Pakenham Scramble for Afr. iii. 47 Using modern ploughs they grew enough mealies to sell the surplus, under-cutting white farmers.2015 E. A. Eldredge Kingdoms & Chiefdoms Southeastern Afr. vii. 164 It is very common talk among the Hlubis and others to the effect that at first the Hlubis used not to cultivate mealies.1801 tr. ‘C. F. Damberger’ Trav. through Interior Afr. iii. 79 Melis, (Indian corn) were distributed as a refreshment for the company. 1804 J. T. van der Kemp in Trans. London Missionary Soc. (ed. 2) 1 438 There is another kind of corn, which they call bona, and is known in the Colony by the name of meelis. 1818 G. Barker Diary 7 Dec. in J. Smuts et al. Voorloper (1976) 557 Began to clean the beans & mielies in the garden. 1844 J. Backhouse Narr. Visit Mauritius & S. Afr. 98 Indian Corn, called in this country Meeles, and Dwarf Kidney-beans are the chief produce of the gardens. 1952 Cape Times 11 Jan. 3/4 The nearby Vergelegen Estate with its acres of corn and mielies. 1974 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 23 July 13 He is wise to discard his bowler hat when crossing a field of mielies. 2005 J. Fedler Dreamcloth 166 In the late afternoon..the shrieking of the mielie vendors began. 2. A maize kernel. Usually in plural; also in singular as a mass noun. ΚΠ 1877 M. A. Barker Year's Housek. S. Afr. 70 I hear that ‘mealies’—the crushed maize—are also much more expensive than they used to be. 1901 Scotsman 11 Mar. 8/1 For eight days they had to live on half a pound of mealie a day, with very little meat. 1925 P. Smith Little Karoo 18 The worn mealie-stamper..in which the mealies were pounded into meal. 1944 M. de B. Nesbitt Road to Avalon (1949) xiv. 113 I sit on the mealie planter, control the levers and see that the hoppers are well filled as they drop mealies in the furrows. 1959 Cape Argus 28 Mar. (Mag. section) 2/6 We left with an appetising supply of pears, spanspek and the first mealies on the cob that we had come by since leaving Cape Town three years ago. 1986 L. Ngosi Mating Birds viii. 47 While..shelling mealies off the cob..the women would be heard gossiping. 2004 A. S. Medearis Ethnic Vegetarian 41 Samp, or mealies, is the name for dried corn, or hominy, in many African dialects. Compounds C1. General attributive. mealie field n. ΚΠ 1869 W. G. Atherstone in R. Noble Cape & its People 361 Cautiously we feel our way through the corn-lands and mealie-fields..and, dismounting, descend the last grassy hill into the valley of the Kleinemond. 1902 2nd Rep. Govt. Entomol. 1901 (Natal Dept. of Agric.) 18 After the cause of the mischief had been discovered, further evidences of its [sc. the keever beetle's] depredations were found all over the mealie field. 1990 N. Mandela in Weekly Mail (Johannesburg) 27 Apr. 3 Some of the mielie fields that could be seen now had been villages then. 2005 R. Lock & P. Quantrill Zulu Vanquished x. 227 In front of him was a mealie field planted close to the water. Beyond lay the upper slopes of the Zungeni Hills. mealie porridge n. ΚΠ 1864 C. M. Yonge New Ground in Mag. for Young Jan. 3 On a form were three little Kaffir girls and two boys, who sang a grace in their own tongue, and received their portions of mealie porridge. 1872 C. A. Payton Diamond Diggings 139 They will frequently provide themselves with an extra in the shape of offal,..but still have an appetite unimpaired for the discussion of their mealie porridge. 1979 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 30 Oct. 1 Though they were fed mostly on vegetables, they missed their usual diet of stamped mealies (umgqusho) and mealie porridge (umpholoqo). 1996 N. Maraire Zenzele ii. 12 When I was growing up, we often ate nothing but mealie porridge and peanuts before bed. mealie-stem n. ΚΠ 1902 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 1 May 176/2 Pine-apple tops seem everywhere, and the mealie stems looked tall and ghostly in the moonlight. 1928 R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 27 Your notice boards like mealie-stems are stripped. mealie-stook n. ΚΠ 1956 N. Gordimer Six Feet of Country 9 The girl catching her stockings on the mealie-stooks. 1957 D. Lessing Going Home ii. 43 Soon the dark, dry earth was bared again, patterned with mealie-stooks, each a small, shining pyramid. C2. mealie-bread n. coarse bread made with maize meal. ΚΠ 1871 H. H. Dugmore Reminisc. Albany Settler 16 They did not take kindly to mealie bread and pumpkin fritters, even when fried in sheeps-tail. 1893 Mission Field 1 May 170 Afterwards the mealie bread and utshwala were disposed of by the congregation outside the church. 1941 Bantu World 25 Jan. (Suppl.) 3 The gravy was brought in cups, and slices of steamed green mealie bread. 1994 Flying Springbok (S. Afr.) June 9 The couscous, pap, rice and mealie-bread staples are there, as are those spicy stews. 2006 S. Engelbrecht & T. De Beer Afr. Salad 58 (heading) Mealie-meal porridge with beans and morogo, and mealie-bread. mealie-pap n. maize-meal porridge; = mealie-meal pap at mealie-meal n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun] polentaOE papelotec1400 pottagea1500 crowdy-mowdy?a1513 drowsen1519 pease porridge?1548 plum pottage1574 sowens1582 grout1587 orgementa1590 plum porridge1591 loblolly1597 pease pottage1600 girt-brew1620 washbrew1620 lentil-porridge1622 hominy1630 porridgea1643 samp1643 nettle-pottage1659 nettle-porridge1661 crowdie1668 suppawn1670 mush1671 rockahominy1674 stirabouta1691 praiseach1698 sagamité1698 brochan1700 atole1716 burgoo1750 purry1751 fungee1789 pepper porridge1803 kasha1808 mamaliga1808 skilligalee1819 bean-porridge1821 skilly1839 sap porridge1842 corn-mush1846 oatmeal mush1850 pap1858 ugali1860 oatmeal1873 mealie-meal1880 mealie-pap1880 uji1889 sadza1899 nsima1907 putu papa1910 posho1927 putu1949 ogi1957 whey-porridge- 1880 E. F. Sandeman Eight Months in Ox-waggon xxvii. 273 Guinea fowls..form a very relishing change from the never-varying menu of bôk or mealie pap. 1903 J. Y. F. Blake West Pointer with Boers iii. 49 We had to come down to straight mealie pap (corn meal mush), and fresh beef. 1953 P. H. Abrahams Return to Goli vi. 200 It was the kind of food I had not eaten for fourteen years: a thick mielie pap. 1987 N. Gordimer Sport of Nature 91 Nothing but mealie pap, you put on weight, they fatten you up for the kill. 2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass x. 69 She remembers sitting in his lap, as a small child, while he ate his mealie-pap and stew. mealie rice n. crushed kernels of maize used as a substitute for rice. ΚΠ 1919 M. Higham Househ. Cookery S. Afr. (ed. 2) vi. 158 Hominy or Mealie Rice, a finer form of samp. 1985 Weekly Mail (Johannesburg) 16 Aug. 7 We ate all our meals in our cells... Supper (mielie rice, a vegetable, bread and a piece of meat and coffee) was at 3pm. 2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! xiv. 154 Koelie saves nice little nuggins and nibblies from his graze..a spoonful of brinjal or mealie rice, also katkop for in-between snacks. mealie-stamper n. [ < mealie n. + Afrikaans stamper pounder, crusher] a large wooden pestle and mortar, used in traditional rural African households in South Africa for pounding maize into meal. ΚΠ 1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm 228 The centre of an old waggon-wheel did duty very effectually as our mealie-stamper. 1925 P. Smith Little Karoo 18 Just outside the door was the worn mealie-stamper, cut out of a tree-trunk and shaped like an hour-glass, in which the mealies were pounded into meal. 1992 E. Palmer Return to Camdeboo 189 I also have my mealie stamper which was made for me for my marriage. 2007 K. G. Tomaselli Writing in San/d 100 A wooden mealie stamper was to be seen next to the horns of a hartebeest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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