hangi

/ (ˈhʌŋiː) /

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noun NZ

Also: Māori oven, umu an open-air cooking pit

the food cooked in it

the social gathering at the resultant meal

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Word Origin for hangi

Māori

Words nearby hangi

hanger-on, hangfire, hang glider, hang gliding, hang, hanged, hangi, hang in, hanging, hangingfly, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, hanging glacier

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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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 5|Various
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 Scherzer
He 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