popoiとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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popoi (uncountable)

1. Synonym of poi (“food made by pounding roots”).
   • 1921, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story‎:

     The scene under the candlenut torches was as familiar to us as the Ohio River of Uncle Tom to the small-town schoolboy; the meager rows of three-quarter naked Kanakas, yellow with saffron and blue with tattooer's ink; the old women in the background of sultry lights and enormous shadows compounding endless balls of popoi for the feast; the local and desceptered chieftain squatting on his hams and guarding the vanished gallon between his knees; this was all as it should have been.