| 释义 |
mealie|ˈmiːlɪ|
Also 9 (from pl.) milice.
[a. Cape Du. milje (pronounced ˈmili), a. Pg. milho millet1, used also (with defining words milho grande, m. da India) for maize.]
1. A South African name for maize; chiefly used in the pl. Freq. attrib. Cf. mielie.
1853Galton Tropical S. Afr. vi. 182 The Ovampo had little pipkins to cook in, and eat corn (milice) steeped in hot water. 1855J. W. Colenso Ten Weeks in Natal, Hist. Sk. p. vi, The second range of land..furnishing abundant crops of hay, oats, mealies, or Indian corn, and barley. 1855W. C. Holden Hist. Natal x. 282 The consumption of mealie (maize) meal in D'Urban has increased. 1879Cape Argus 5 June (Cent.), A bivouac was made near a deserted kraal, there being..a mealie-field hard by... A volley was fired from the adjacent mealie-garden. 1884E. P. Mathers Glimpse of Gold Fields 29 At one of our camps I tried to get some mealie porridge made. 1893Westm. Gaz. 10 Oct. 2/1 Their staple diet then being ‘mealie’ meal porridge made with water. 1901Scotsman 11 Mar 8/1 For eight days they had to live on half a pound of mealie a day, with very little meat. 1925P. Smith Little Karoo 18 Just outside the door was the worn mealie-stamper, cut out of a tree-trunk and shaped like an hour-glass, in which the mealies were pounded into meal. 1928R. Campbell Wayzgoose i. 27 Your notice boards like mealie-stems are stripped. 1929D. Reitz Commando xiv. 129 Rations were chiefly game and mealie-meal. 1944M. de B. Nesbitt Road to Avalon (1949) xiv. 113, I sit on the mealie planter, control the levers and see that the hoppers are well filled as they drop mealies in the furrows. 1956N. Gordimer Six Feet of Country 9 The girl catching her stockings on the mealie-stooks. 1962Cape Times 13 June 1/4 A Harvard aircraft..crashed in a mealie land near Dunnottar. 1971Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. 12/5, I made all sorts of things like mealie bread to make a bit of money for my poor old husband to buy a piece of industrial ground. 1973Times 28 Nov. 8/7 Mealie-meal, the staple food, was..in short supply. 1974G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies iii. 51 A slovenly breakfast of half-burnt mealie-meal porridge and boiled penguin eggs.
2. mealie-cob, a corn cob; mealie-cob worm, the caterpillar of Heliothis armigera, a noctuid moth; mealie-pap = mieliepap (mielie).
1859R. J. Mann Natal 137 (Pettman), The young *mealy-cob is generally preferred to bread. 1932S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys xii. 195 The meally cobs and fruit it [sc. chacma] plunders from cultivated lands.
1911J. D. F. Gilchrist S. Afr. Zool. 150 (Pettman), The *Mealie-cob worm..does extensive damage to mealies, peas, tomatoes, and lucerne.
1880E. F. Sandeman Eight Months in Ox Waggon xxvii. 273 Guinea fowls..form a very relishing change from the never-varying menu of bôk or *mealie pap. 1902J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 28 A few Kaffir transport drivers..are boiling their ‘mealie-pap’ in three-legged pots. 1903J. Y. F. Blake West Pointer with Boers iii. 49 We had to come down to straight mealie pap (corn meal mush), and fresh beef. 1922J. Buchan Bk. Escapes vi. 120 For food he had to trust to mealie-pap at Kafir kraals. 1966D. Varaday Gara-Yaka's Domain xii. 135 Mealie-pap—maize-porridge—the bush substitute for bread was cooking. |
