cush-cush
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A dish of cooked cornmeal mush cereal (served with milk or syrup); native to New Orleans.
‘Cush-cush’ seems to be African in origin and is also a type of yam.
Examples
“When their curiosity was satisfied, they then appeared to consider our condition, and having obtained the old king's permission, they brought us a calabash full of cush-cush, that is, Guinea corn boiled into a thick paste.”
“The cush cush involves corn meal and cafe brule is sugar, browned to caramel, with boiled milk added.”
Horace Sutton, 'A Pocket of France Among the Bayous,' Toledo Blade, December 26, 1965
