hangi

noun NZ

Also: Māori oven, umu an open-air cooking pit
the food cooked in it
the social gathering at the resultant meal

Word Origin

Māori

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Examples from the Web for hangi

Historical Examples

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
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hangi

Word Origin

Examples from the Web for hangi

Historical Examples

He flashed his tomahawk in the air; he yelled, "We must have one body—one body to cook in the hangi!"

A bird known locally as Hangi, not met elsewhere in Europe, nests at Filfla.