mealie
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- noun
- South African
- mealie meal
Examples
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Once the nation goes back to this strategy, there will no longer be pressure on the limited supplies of mealie meal available in times of drought.
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This will ensure affordable mealie meal prices for low-income households.
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But for some reason, even the villagers who normally grew these crops suddenly stopped and waited for supplies of mealie meal from milling companies.
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In fact, all this hue and cry about a shortage of mealie meal would not have arisen had most Zambians not thrown to the wind the production of some of their traditional staple foods.
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Soybean flour is available, and a handful thrown in with the maize meal (mealie meal) as it is cooked adds significantly to the quality of the diet.
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In South Africa, many families rely on mealie to prepare traditional dishes like mealie pap.
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The farmer harvested enough mealie to feed his livestock throughout the winter months.
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At the market, she bought a fresh ear of mealie to cook for dinner.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mealie comes from the Afrikaans mielie, a word for maize that came from Portuguese milho meaning 'corn'. A helpful way to remember mealie is to think of meal, since maize makes meal, so in South Africa a mealie is an ear of corn.