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Mealies

Mealies \Meal"ies\, n. pl. [From Mealy.] (Bot.) Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

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mealies

n. (plural of mealie English)

Usage examples of "mealies".

Or maybe not so crazy, if his lies had persuaded his deluded converts to bring him the mealies and yams he was too lazy to plant for himself.

Her meager breakfast of boiled mealies became a cold rock in her stomach, and the heavy little bolt fell out of her numb fingers.

As casually as if his guests had been two Kikuyu villagers come to swap mealies for dried meat, he was clearing his bedroll and bags off the stone shelf and beckoning them to seat themselves.

He continued to cram his frog-like mouth to capacity with handfuls of mealies scooped up from a vessel held up to him by a kneeling woman, and to stare down a broad lane which was being formed by the action of his subjects in pressing back on either hand.