Meaning of sufuria | Babel Free

Definitions

A deep metal cooking pot with a flat base and no handles.

Africa, East

Equivalents

Examples

“Two large sufurias. For baking and roasting. Obtained from Zanzibar. Large enough to hold⟳ fry-pan mentioned above. / One small sufuria. For native servants. The only way to prevent⟳ the master's sufuria being used.”

“In a corner, he discovered a small amount of maize-flour in a bag among the utensils. He put⟳ this in a sufuria on a fire, added water and stirred it with a wooden spoon. He liked porridge in the morning.”

“The prefects, including the choir boy, had a separate⟳ table. Their food was even cooked separately, in a small sufuria the way it is done at home, [...]”

“Where there is no discipline, children do not perform⟳ well in their national examinations, for discipline is the mother of learning. Without it, imparting academic knowledge is like⟳ carefully boiling milk in a dirty, greasy sufuria.”

“A few days to uhuru, the local sufuria repairman, Bangarasio, was repairing my mother's sufurias.”

“Sometimes that lunch was in the form⟳ of three raw eggs and a sufuria because there were times Damiano thought it wise to cook⟳ in school during lunch hour. Come⟳ that hour and he would light⟳ a fire, break⟳ his eggs into the sufuria, fry them, eat⟳ them and then belch as if he had just demolished a six course buffet.”

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