mealie
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈmiːli/
Definition of mealie
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(South-Africa)An ear or kernel of maize; in plural as mass noun: maize, corn.
“The wants of a native living with his tribe and cultivating mealies or Kafir corn are confined to a kaross (skin cloak) or some pieces of cotton cloth.”
“At the other end of the veranda, on two deck-chairs planted side by side and looking away over the bush and the mealie fields, were Mr. Quest and Mr. Van Rensberg […]”
“My mother planted and harvested her own mealies.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Afrikaans mielie, from obsolete Dutch milie (“millet, maize”), from Old French mil (“millet”).
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