mealie

American  

[mee-lee] / ˈmi li /

noun

South African.

1. Sometimes mealies. corn; maize.

2. an ear of corn.

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mealie British  

/ ˈmiːlɪ /

noun

1. an ear of maize See also mealies

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Etymology

Origin of mealie

1850–55; < Afrikaans mielie < Portuguese milho maize, millet < Latin milium millet

Example Sentences

Mealie, mēl′i, n. an ear of maize or Indian corn, esp. in pl., maize.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Mealie meal, ad lib., was no longer possible, and porridge—well, the good that it had done lived after it, though we had never acknowledged the actual doing of it.

From The Siege of Kimberley by Phelan, T.

Mealie stalks were snapping off short, one after the other, and a broad, trampled, and broken patch, as if the place had been roughly mown, marked the passage of the horse.

From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram

Mealie pap is cooked in a simple fashion, and occasionally boiling hot pots of it have fallen into the hands of the British.

From My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War by Van Breda, P.