单词 | poipoi |
释义 | poipoin. In Tahiti and the Marquesas: a paste of cooked or fermented breadfruit or banana with coconut milk, similar to the Hawaiian poi (see poi n.1). Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > other vegetable dishes moose1568 bubble and squeak1762 poipoi1769 smash1785 poi1798 chartreuse1806 mescal1831 bhaji1832 luau1843 stelk1843 macédoine1846 peyote1849 chiffonade1877 mirepoix1877 munyeroo1878 tzimmes1892 maror1893 red flannel hash1902 subgum1902 Roquefort salad1907 caponata1931 pakora1932 Imam Bayildi1935 ratatouille niçoise1938 cauliflower cheese1940 vegeburger1945 saag aloo1967 githeri1973 aloo gobi1974 1769 J. Cook Jrnl. 28 June in Voy. of Endeavour (1968) 110 Poipoi (that is Breadfruit, Plantains &ca mixed with Cocoa nut Milk and water to the consistance [sic] of Custard). 1769 J. Banks Jrnl. 22 July (1896) vi. 117 We saw also a trough for making Poe poe, or sour paste, carved out of hard black stone. a1771 S. Parkinson Jrnl. Voy. South Seas (1773) 46 Of it [sc. breadfruit] they form several sorts of paste, such as pepe, popoee, &c. which are used by them at their meals. 1826 S. Stutchbury Jrnl. 9 May in Sci. in Sea of Commerce (1996) 79 Their whole furniture consists of a large chest, a few calabashes to hold water, a machine to make Popoe. 1829 W. Ellis Polynesian Res. I. xiii. 377 The most general dish in the Southern Islands is what they call popoi, nearly resembling the poe of the Sandwich Islands. It is made with the ripe mountain plantain, either raw or baked, beaten up into a paste or jelly, and diluted with cocoa-nut milk. Another kind of popoi is made with bread-fruit, or opio, beaten up and diluted with cocoa-nut or plain water. 1846 H. Melville Typee I. x. 72 One of the crowd..disappeared, and returned in a few moments with a calabash of ‘poee-poee’... The poee-poee was then placed before us. 1888 M. I. Stevenson Let. 25 Aug. in M. C. Balfour From Saranac to Marquesas (1903) 121 Madame Stanislas gave Fanny a very finely carved poi-poi bowl of mio wood. 1919 Cent. Mag. Aug. 450/1 The players halted briefly to eat a bowl of poipoi. 1938 Amer. Lit. 9 457 He was abundantly supplied, by voluntary taxation, with luscious poee-poee. 1974 T. Heyerdahl Fatu-Hiva iii. 122 Poipoi, the staple diet in most of Polynesia. Nowhere else was poipoi made as strong as in the Marquesas group. 2003 Savvy Traveler (Nexis) 30 Aug. Our plates are loaded up with pork, taro, breadfruit or poi-poi, beef, bananas and puddings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1769 |
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