potjiekos, noun

/ˈpɔɪkikɔs//ˈpuɪcikɔs/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, potjie (see potjie) + kos food.
1. A stew cooked in a three-legged cast-iron pot over an open fire. Also attributive.
1985 L. Sampson in Style Feb. 100‘Come to dinner, we’ll make potjiekos.’ The word is rimmed with nostalgia and tradition...The fact that it turns out to be rather a dreary stew is neither here nor there.
1985 M. Darke in Argus 6 Apr. 7Potjiekos is basically food cooked in a three-legged pot over an open fire, with the important distinction that it should never, never be stirred.
1986 S. Afr. Digest 6 June (Cover)Hundreds of potjiekos (traditional stew) experts gathered to renew their faith in the old black pot.
1987 Scope 9 Oct. 14I’m just about to stop to make a quick potjiekos under these lekker big coconut trees.
1987 Daily Dispatch 17 Oct. 2It’s a serious if tasty job judging a potjiekos competition.
1988 N. Abbott in Personality 27 June 38Braaivleis has bowed to potjiekos.
1989 Sunday Times 22 Jan. (Mag. Sect.) 49Potjiekos..has been with us for centuries, but only recently has it gained wide popularity.
1992 [see potjie].
2. figurative.
1989 Sunday Times 17 Dec. 11Pik Botha is the potjiekos politician. Tough, homely, thoroughly indigenous, able to withstand massive heat.
1990 E. Prov. Herald 27 Feb. 9An interesting new trio..The Kerels, their music, described variously as boerekos-bop, boere-punk, or potjiekos-pop.
1990 Style May 40He was an assimilated Afrikaner, a ‘South African’ rather than a Boer, proud to be just another ingredient in the spicy, colourful potjiekos of cultures and languages and races.
1991 G. Silber in Sunday Times 20 Jan. (Mag. Sect.) 10American-style Scratch ’n Break rhythms, spiced up with a potjiekos of indigenous textures and flavours, ranging from Mbaqanga to Boeremusiek..to the Malay-accented jazz of Abdullah Ibrahim.
A stew cooked in a three-legged cast-iron pot over an open fire. Also attributive.
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