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mealie pap

noun

  1. mealie porridge
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mealie pap1

Afrikaans
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Example Sentences

A Kaffir lives on mealie-pap, varied by an occasional cow's head.

"Mealie-pap" without milk was bad enough; minus sugar it was unthinkable.

They consisted of meat and 'mealie-pap' morning, noon, and night, often for weeks without salt.

Even "mealie-pap," ad lib., we had perforce to forego; the "Law" allowed it but once a day.

It lived on a little mealie pap and odd bits of roaster-cakes that were thrown to it as though it were a dog.

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