hangi

/ (ˈhʌŋiː) /

noun NZ

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

the food cooked in it

the social gathering at the resultant meal

Nearby words

hanged for a sheep as a lamb, might as well be, hanged, drawn, and quartered, hanger, hanger-on, hangfire, hangi, hanging, hanging gardens of babylon, hanging glacier, hanging indentation, hanging indention

Word Origin for hangi

Māori

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Examples from the Web for hangi

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
A bird known locally as Hangi, not met elsewhere in Europe, nests at Filfla.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 5|Various