stywe pap, noun

/ˈsteɪvə pap/
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AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, stywe attributive form of styf stiff + pap porridge.
Firm maize-meal porridge, often eaten with meat; putu sense a; sadza. See also mealiepap sense 1.
1968 Fair Lady 30 Oct. (Suppl.) 6Mieliepap for every taste. Have you tried it with meat and gravy? A real old-time South African favourite, this — perfect at braais. Make the firm ‘Stywe pap’ or the dry and crumbly ‘Krummelpap’.
1973 Fair Lady 8 Aug. 193‘Stywe’ pap with honey, butter and milk. Try it with porridge and crumbly pap too.
1974 E. Prov. Herald 6 May 9They were served with stiff porridge (stywepap). But then, when we were in the bundu on a safari, everything was served with stywepap — even mopani worms.
1975 Darling 1 Oct. 31The only other necessary ingredients for a braaivleis are salads, fly swatters, and boiled potatoes with butter. Mealies..are nice too. If you must have stywe pap, give your guests a choice of bread too.
1976 Farmer’s Weekly 28 Jan. 92When a woman turned a man weak at the knees, his brains were about as much use as a plate of cold stywepap.
1976 V. Rosenberg Sunflower 213The menu in the Bosman-Vorster camp comprised braai chops, ‘stywepap’ and ‘vetkoek’ all washed down with claret from the large bottle. The ‘stywepap’ was Herman’s sacred charge.
1979 Capetonian May 9If your ancestors had the bad taste to trek over the Orange River, that’s toughies on you, my unwanted bed fellows from the land of stywepap and mampoer!
1986 Cape Times 16 May 11Surely stywepap is stywepap, not ‘stiff mealie meal porridge’.
1990 [see three-legged].
Firm maize-meal porridge, often eaten with meat; putu sense a; sadza.
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styfsiekte, nounn.Sub A, noun phrasen. phr.
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