ash cake, noun phrase

Origin:: Translation of Afrikaans askoek.

rare

Note:: Used also in U.S. English.

c1929 L.P. Bowler Afr. Nights 37If I did subsist almost entirely on ‘ash-cakes,’ and often sleep on the bare ground, it was an excellent training for the adventurous life to come.

1949 [see karbonatjie].

2. askoek sense 2.

1950 [see askoek sense 2].

askoek sense 1.

askoek sense 2.

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