biltong
See also: Biltong
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Afrikaans biltong, from bil (“buttock, hindquarter”) + tong (“tongue”).
Noun
editbiltong (countable and uncountable, plural biltongs)
- (South Africa, Zimbabwe) A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- The rest of the buck's flesh we cut into strips and hung in the sun to dry into 'biltong,' as, I believe, the South African Dutch call flesh thus prepared.
- 1981, “The Star: Gastro-diplomacy”, in South African Digest: Fortnightly Digest of South African Affairs, Pretoria: Department of Information, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 3:
- "P W who …?" Mr William Clark is reputed to have said when he was being quizzed for the job of American Assistant Secretary of State. Well, whatever political reminders he might now have, he will never forget our prime minister [P. W. Botha] after being given so memorable a dish as biltong souffle for breakfast yesterday, backed up by straight biltong and maroela jelly.
References
edit- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
editAfrikaans
editEtymology
editFrom bil (“hindquarter”) + tong (“tongue”).
Noun
editbiltong (plural biltonge)
Descendants
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Afrikaans biltong. Equivalent to bil + tong.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbiltong f (plural biltongen, diminutive biltongetje n)
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