the juice of the bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavouring, esp in West Indian cookery
Word origin
C19: of Carib origin
cassareep in American English
(ˈkæsəˌrip)
noun
the juice of bitter cassava root, boiled down to a syrup and used as a flavoring forfood, esp. in West Indian cookery
Word origin
[1825–35; apocopated var. of earlier cassarepo ‹ Carib]This word is first recorded in the period 1825–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: archaic, breakdown, self-help, spiritualism, torque