miskoekn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪskʊk/, U.S.

/ˈmɪskʊk/, South African English

/ˈmɪskʊk/

Inflections: Plural miskoeke Brit.

/ˈmɪskʊkə/, U.S.

/ˈmɪskʊkə/, South African English

/ˈməskʊkə/.

Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans miskoek.

Etymology: < Afrikaans miskoek hard cake of dung < mis mis n.² + koek (see cake n. and adj.). Compare earlier mest-koek n.

South African.

A dried cow pat, used for fuel or as building material. Cf. mest-koek n.

ΚΠ

1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 38 The manure..was periodically cut out with spades in square cakes of about 18 inches. Packed on top of the kraal walls, where it soon dried ready for burning, these cakes were sold..at fourpence each, and were called miskoeke.

1985 Style Feb. 103 I had a stove, but in Fraserburg there was no wood so we had to burn dung pats, you know the miskoek.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	miskoek
释义	miskoekn. Brit. /ˈmɪskʊk/, U.S. /ˈmɪskʊk/, South African English /ˈmɪskʊk/ Inflections: Plural miskoeke Brit. /ˈmɪskʊkə/, U.S. /ˈmɪskʊkə/, South African English /ˈməskʊkə/. Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans miskoek. Etymology: < Afrikaans miskoek hard cake of dung < mis mis n.² + koek (see cake n. and adj.). Compare earlier mest-koek n. South African. A dried cow pat, used for fuel or as building material. Cf. mest-koek n. ΚΠ 1958 A. Jackson Trader on Veld 38 The manure..was periodically cut out with spades in square cakes of about 18 inches. Packed on top of the kraal walls, where it soon dried ready for burning, these cakes were sold..at fourpence each, and were called miskoeke. 1985 Style Feb. 103 I had a stove, but in Fraserburg there was no wood so we had to burn dung pats, you know the miskoek. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1958
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