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mangarie

mangarie noun: food.

Noun

mangarie (uncountable)

  1. (Polari) Food
    • Amazing what a bit of mangarie can do.2008, G. J. Leckie, Second Acts, page 231
    • “Mangarie,” we are saying, pressing the biscuits and tins of food into their hands.2011, Myron C. Peterson, Time Capsule-1944: A Story of World War II, page 145

Origin of mangarie

From Italian mangiare (“to eat”), from Old French mangier (“to eat”), from Latin mandūcāre (“to eat”). Doublet of mungaree.

Questions about mangarie

What does mangarie mean?
Mangarie means food.
What part of speech is mangarie?
Mangarie is a noun.

Words near mangarie in the dictionary

  1. Mangarai
  2. Mangaraian
  3. Mangareva
  4. Mangarevan
  5. Mangarevans
  6. mangarie
  7. Mangaroa
  8. mangars
  9. mangas
  10. Mangasarian
  11. Mangasarians

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