putuとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General South African) IPA: /ˈpʊtʊ/, /ˈpuːtʊ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpuːtuː/

名詞

putu (uncountable)

1. (South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal. [from 20th c.]
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 328:

     Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.

   • 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 242:

     Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).

関連する語

• putu pap