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hangi
/ ˈhʌŋiː /
noun
- AlsoMāori ovenumu an open-air cooking pit
- the food cooked in it
- the social gathering at the resultant meal
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hangi1
Māori
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Example Sentences
A bird known locally as Hangi, not met elsewhere in Europe, nests at Filfla.
From Project Gutenberg
The Hangi-Maori, or Maori oven, is nothing but a hole some three feet long by one and a half deep excavated in the earth.
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He flashed his tomahawk in the air; he yelled, "We must have one body—one body to cook in the hangi!"
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