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mauby|ˈməʊbɪ|
Also mawby.
[See mobbie, mobee.]
In Barbados, a drink made from the diluted extract of the bark of a tree or shrub of the genus Gouania or related plants; cf. mobbie, mobee 1.
1790J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 105 Cool drink or mauby is a delicious nectar to them in the morning. 1954S. M. Sadeek Windswept & Other Stories (1969) 25 He drank, at first sipping the tall mauby slowly. 1957I. Bayley in F. A. Collymore Notes for Gloss. Words & Phr. Barbadian Dial. 56 Mauby is made from bark, boiled in water for about an hour, and concentrated to a basic extract. When making the drink, some of the stock is diluted with water; sugar and vanilla essence are added... The result is a bitter-sweet drink, with a frothy head, popular for quenching the thirst, and for ‘cooling’ the blood. 1958J. Carew Black Midas i. 17 One Friday Tanta Moore invited him in for a drink of mauby. 1962Listener 16 Aug. 248/2 A man stands beside his handcart dispensing mawby or snowball, which consists of shaved ice covered with scarlet syrup. 1965Ibid. 8 Apr. 523/3 Constant chatter is punctuated with the high-pitched, rather doleful cry of the ‘mauby’ girl: she..carries a two-gallon tank on her head, with a tap on it that she manipulates to dispense cold tea to her customers; a special kind of cold tea, brewed from the bark of the mauby plant. 1968E. Lovelace Schoolmaster i. 8 Fruit wines from cashew and guava, and sorrel and mauby. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 15 Dec. 8/1 In short, it is like serving mauby and ginger beer in a cocktail glass. 1974Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 10 Mar. 14/1 Formerly, mauby women walked the streets with their load on their heads, and a bench in hand. But today, some of them drive or are driven. |