pens en pootjies, noun phrase

/ˌpens(ə)n ˈpʊɪkis//ˌpens(ə)n ˈpʊɪkiːz/
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Afrikaans, DutchShow more Afrikaans, from Dutch pens belly, tripe + en and + pootjes, poot animal’s hoof or foot + diminutive suffix -ie + plural suffix -s.
Tripe and trotters. Also attributive, and partial translation of pens and pootjes. See also offal sense b. Cf. kop-en-pootjies.
1815 A. Plumptre tr. of H. Lichtenstein’s Trav. in Sn Afr. II. 355Two or three sheep were killed every day: the entrails and feet were cooked with the fat of the tail, for breakfast, after a fashion which is very much in vogue throughout the colony, under the name of pens en pootjets [sic].
1890 A.G. Hewitt Cape Cookery 26‘Pens and Pootjes’ Curry. Take a well-cleaned sheep’s tripe and trotters.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 369Pens en pootjes,..A dish composed of sheep’s entrails and feet.
1985 Newsletter (W. Prov. Sports Club) July–Aug.Tripe and trotters (pens en pootjies) R4,20. Pork Khebabs with pineapple R5,50.
Tripe and trotters. Also attributive, and partial translation of pens and pootjes.
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