单词 | potjie |
释义 | potjien. South African. 1. A cast-iron cooking pot with three short legs and a lid, intended for use over an open fire. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > pot with legs or feet posnetc1350 yetling1354 skillet1403 skill1600 Barnstaple oven1716 bastable oven1748 goashore1834 bastable1836 kaffir pot1863 kohua1901 potjie1985 1985 Cape Times 19 Aug. Have fun out of doors cooking the traditional way with a potjie. 1989 Sunday Times 17 Dec. 11 Chief ingredient in the Pik potjie is political savvy. Then there's tenacity, vigour, ambition. 2003 Sunday Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 13 July 4 With Ndebele walls and a fireplace complete with potjie, it was very South African indeed. 2011 T. Hadley in New Yorker 7 Nov. 72/3 When she was a child she and her brother had spent every summer on their farm in the Western Cape, cooking most of their food outdoors, on a braai or in a metal potjie, which sat over the fire. 2. A dish cooked in a potjie; = potjiekos n. ΚΠ 1989 S. Afr. Panorama 17 Feb. 19 The seafood potjie..was a winner. 2007 Daily Disp. (E. London, S. Afr.) 23 Apr. 2/3 My favourite take-out is an African potjie. 2014 M. Charlotte Sanity xxv. 241 The ‘potjie’ came out pretty good, and both Brian and Steven got up after dinner to get seconds. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1985 |
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