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matooke

matooke 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 matooke

What is matooke the alternative form of?
Matooke is the alternative form of matoke.

Words near matooke in the dictionary

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

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