hangi
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,
- 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 CowanA bird known locally as Hangi, not met elsewhere in Europe, nests at Filfla.