maiza, noun

/ˈmaɪza/
Forms:
Also miza.
Origin:
Isicamtho, EnglishShow more Isicamtho, adaptation of English maize.
In urban (especially township) slang: (commercially manufactured) beer made from sprouted maize. Cf. tshwala sense a ii. Also attributive.
1968 Drum Sept. 30The local maiza in Germiston, which sells for 10c a scale.
a1977 K.M.C. Motsisi in M. Mutloatse Casey & Co. (1978) 133Next time the quack and nurses call around this ‘Bara’ bed of mine they will find me singing — Show me the way to go home with a smile as wide as a two-up of maiza.
1979 Pace Sept. 28The calabash goes round and round, and everybody shakes it and gulps down the only beverage of immortality ‘mbamba,’ some call it ‘maiza,’ the Afrikaner call it ‘Bantoe bier’.
(commercially manufactured) beer made from sprouted maize.
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