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eba

eba noun: a stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.

eba: a stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton
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Noun

eba (uncountable)

  1. A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
    • I don’t grumble, even though eba clings to surfaces, especially wooden ones, like superglue.2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 18

Proper noun capitalized: EBA

EBA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Everything but Arms.
    • “The key responsibility here falls on the UK,” Hopewell said. “In order to prevent a major drop in LDC (least developed country) exports, it urgently needs to replicate the terms of the EU GSP and the EBA treaty and ensure that these arrangements are in place before the UK leaves the EU on March...2019 February 4, Emily Dixon, “The developing countries with the most to fear from Brexit”, in CNN

Origin of eba

From Yoruba ẹ̀bà.

Questions about eba

What does eba mean?
Eba means a stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
What part of speech is eba?
Eba can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near eba in the dictionary

  1. EAZ
  2. eazily
  3. EAZs
  4. eazy
  5. EB
  6. eba
  7. EBacc
  8. EBaccs
  9. ebalzotan
  10. ebanking
  11. ebanzuke

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