Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin milum (“grain”) through Afrikaans. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Payments in kind such as mielie meal, bread and milk amounting to”
“They have an interesting type of "mielie" (corn) here, that is black-very weird smell!”
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“The commission was currently investigating the price-fixing of bread, mielie meal and dairy products involving Premier Foods, Tiger”
“Using a "mielie bag" analogy, he explained that what's happening in the markets now can be compared to a farmer who produced only 100 bags of mielies a year, but consumed 108, borrowing the other eight from his neighbour.”
“Mashi went missing on Saturday and his body was found in a mielie field on Thursday.”
“It was estimated that 61 percent of the maize growing area was planted with white maize, the source of mielie-meal for human consumption, compared with 53 percent the previous year.”
“Ferreira said the white maize crop, the source of mielie-meal for human consumption, was especially at risk.”
“He said the Afrikaans media and their intellectuals operated inside a "mielie driehoek" (mealie triangle) mentality which was only real between Potchefstroom, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.”
“Renewed random shootings kept the terrified villagers out of their homes at night and away from the mist-covered mielie plantations that have become fields of terror and murder.”
“He said David Masilo and Metoa were arrested by police at 3am on Monday and were found in a mielie field.”
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Open List: The World of Corn
Corn-related words and phrases. This versatile crop is so important to cultures and economies - from most basic indigenous foodstuff and animal feed to source of biopolymer and biofuel.
seed corn, field corn, flint corn, sweet corn, biofuel, biopolymer, corn starch, modified corn starch, cornstarch, cornflour, polylactic acid, citric acid and 390 more...
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Double diphthongs, etc.
Words with repeated diphthongs or other pairs of vowels, with no other vowels.
aeae, aiai, aoao, auau, ayay, eaea, eiei, eoeo, eueu, eyey, iaia, ieie, ioio, iuiu, oaoa, oeoe, oioi, ouo...chaetae, airmail, gainsaid, hairbrain, hairtail, jailbait, maimai, mainsail, maintain, zaikai, chainmail, braindrain and 201 more...
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