Meaning of kukuruz | Babel Free

Definitions

Maize.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“Here is grown some kukuruz, there stands a walnut-tree, yonder a whole thicket of elder, and there a thorn hedge, inclosing what looks something like a kitchen-garden, and all wearing an aspect of decay and neglect. […] What was his breakfast?—a raw head of kukuruz:—his dinner?—grapes, so unripe that they were like green peas.”

“A boundless extent of pasturage, now and then diversified by a broken frame over a well, or a few storks that promenade round a half dried up swamp; bad fields, whose crops of kukuruz and wheat are protected by God only, and by that degree of bodily fatigue to which even a thief is exposed;—[…]:—such were the sights upon which you closed your eyes, and such, indeed, are the sights which you behold on awaking.”

“Little dainties were offered him which had hitherto been kept out of sight—cakes made of sprouted wheat-ears and called notis—and cakes of kukuruz-dough kneaded with buttermilk, and considered delicious. […] “What say you to a nice mess of kukuruz?” […] She provisioned it with some flitches of bacon, several bags of kukuruz, and a cask of red Buda wine; […]”

“With a rather heavy expenditure of labour the peasant cultivates his field of maize, and with his handmill grinds the kukuruz meal used by him in baking mamaliga, his chief article of food, which resembles polenta.”

“The hot kukuruz with cold milk was excellent, and we told Leopold to offer our visitors some. He translated the reply with his mouth full of kukuruz.”

“Number six won’t yield fruit—always runs to blossom like a young girl to ribbons! The Herr Baron said to take Number seven apple tree and graft it onto the one by the gate. He’s a young sheep’s head! No, I shall tell him I have done it; but the apple tree by the kukuruz bed is better, that will I graft and not the other! So I shall save both respect and apples!”

“The kukuruz and peppers strung across artfully darkened beams had languidly swayed in the warm air that rose from the open charcoal grill.”

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