hangi
/ (ˈhʌŋiː) /
nounNZ
Also: Māori oven, umu an open-air cooking pit
the food cooked in it
the social gathering at the resultant meal
Origin of hangi
1Māori
Words Nearby hangi
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How to use hangi in a sentence
A bird known locally as hangi, not met elsewhere in Europe, nests at Filfla.
The hangi-Maori, or Maori oven, is nothing but a hole some three feet long by one and a half deep excavated in the earth.
Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III | Karl Ritter von ScherzerHe flashed his tomahawk in the air; he yelled, "We must have one body—one body to cook in the hangi!"
The adventures of Kimble Bent | James Cowan
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