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▪ I. conjee, congee Anglo-Ind.|ˈkɒndʒiː|
Also conji.
[ad. Tamil kañji; in Telugu and Canarese gañji, Malayālam kaṇni, Urdu ganji: of doubtful origin; ‘not Dravidian’ (G. U. Pope). The Eng. form may have been taken through the Portuguese; Garcia 1563 has canje; candgie, canji, cangia are early representations in other European langs.]
The water in which rice has been boiled; used as an article of diet for invalids, and as starch.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India iv. vi. 200 They have..a great Stone, on which they beat their Cloaths till clean: and if for family-use, starch them with Congee. 1789Saunders Boutan & Thibet in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 101 The patient is nourished with congee and other liquids. 1800J. R. Forster tr. Paolino's Voy. 70 (Y.) Cagni, boiled rice water, which the Europeans call Cangi. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son. I. 290 You must not eat! I have ordered the boy to make you some congee. 1833A. T. Christie Epid. Cholera 35 note, This [i.e. the resemblance of cholera-stools to rice-water] has given rise to the vulgar term for the secretion in India, viz. ‘Conjee-evacuations’. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 227 The rice (or conjee) water contains some albuminous matter.
b. conjee-house: a military ‘lock-up’; ‘so called from the traditionary regimen of the inmates’ (Yule).
1835Sir C. Napier in Mawson Records (1851) 101 note (Y.) All men confined for drunkenness should, if possible, be confined by themselves in the Congee-House, till sober. 1859Dickens Haunted Ho. iii. 18 They sent me to..a ‘congee house’, where I was fed principally on rice-water.
▪ II. ˈconjee, congee, v.
Also congie.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To starch with rice-water.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India iv. vi. 201 They lay them [their Cloaths] a whitening, and after Congee or stiffen them. 1829The Bengalee 134 His stiff, full cravat of former days..surmounted with a well congied modern shirt collar. |