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hard food

hard food noun: starchy staple fruits and vegetables.

Noun

hard food (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Starchy staple fruits and vegetables.
    • Hard food, such as yams, coco and dasheen, came from Country, and sometimes meat too.2012, Claudette Beckford-Brady, Sweet Home, Jamaica, page 382

Questions about hard food

What does hard food mean?
Hard food means starchy staple fruits and vegetables.
What part of speech is hard food?
Hard food is a noun.

Words near hard food in the dictionary

  1. hard errors
  2. hard feelings
  3. hard fern
  4. hard float
  5. hard floats
  6. hard food
  7. hard fork
  8. hard forks
  9. hard freeze
  10. hard freezes
  11. hard g

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