mealies
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a wild boy, he had eaten crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mealies grew in clumps as though they had sprouted from entire ears dropped from unharvested plants.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
“Well, I wouldn’t be in the village. I’d be at Zororo Mtoko’s house. I’d be stamping mealies for his three wives. They would be sitting indoors with pots of maheu.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
For lunch we often received phuzatnandla, which means “drink of strength,” a powder made from mealies and a bit of yeast.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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