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‖ kankie|ˈkæŋkɪ|
Also 8 canky.
[West African; nkankye in Ashantee, kankyew in Fantee.]
Native African bread made from maize-flour.
1735J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 90 Salary sufficient to buy Canky, Palm-Oil, and a little Fish to keep them from starving. 1863R. F. Burton W. Africa II. ix. 144 Kankie is native bread; the flour..must be manipulated till it becomes snowy white; after various complicated operations..it is boiled or roasted and packed in plantain leaves. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 448 On the Gold Coast the natives..make it into a kind of bread resembling the kankie. Ibid. 451 Converted by the Fantes into kankie-cakes. |