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matoke

UK/maˈtəʊkeɪ/

matoke noun: mashed boiled bananas or plantains, a staple food in Uganda.

Noun

matoke (uncountable)

  1. Mashed boiled bananas or plantains, a staple food in Uganda.
    • The two men walk down the hill from Makerere University but get no further than Wandegeya, a cacophonous slum of scrap-iron artisans, blaring radios and ragged-trousered clients frequenting matoke and waragi bars.2016, Maya Jaggi, “Memories of Makerere”, in Literary Review, page 449

Forms of matoke

alternative formmatooke
alternative formmatooka

Origin of matoke

Borrowed from Luganda matooke.

Words that rhyme with matoke

Questions about matoke

What does matoke mean?
Matoke means mashed boiled bananas or plantains, a staple food in Uganda.
What part of speech is matoke?
Matoke is a noun.
How do you pronounce matoke?
Matoke is pronounced /maˈtəʊkeɪ/ (UK).

Words near matoke in the dictionary

  1. Matneys
  2. Matnog
  3. Mato
  4. Mato Grosso
  5. Mato Grosso do Sul
  6. matoke
  7. Matola
  8. Maton
  9. Matong
  10. matoniaceous
  11. Matons

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