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matooka

matooka is the alternative form of matoke.

Meaning of matoke

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

Questions about matooka

What is matooka the alternative form of?
Matooka is the alternative form of matoke.

Words near matooka in the dictionary

  1. Matola
  2. Maton
  3. Matong
  4. matoniaceous
  5. Matons
  6. matooka
  7. matooke
  8. matoor
  9. matoppie
  10. Mator
  11. matorral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: matooka (page history and authors); matoke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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