poop, noun2

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IsiZuluShow more Englished form of isiZulu impuphu meal, flour.
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pap noun sense 1.
1899 G.H. Russell Under Sjambok 176In about an hour a man came..and shoved in another of those wooden bowls containing mealie poop.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 88Poop,..Mealie meal porridge is generally known by this name among the natives of Natal.
c1929 L.P. Bowler Afr. Nights 41When the eggs and fowls failed to appear, I had to live as the Kafirs do at the kraals, on poop, a pap made from mealie meal.
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