"putu" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 328",
          "text": "Theo and I would join the servants for breakfast, squatting on our haunches round the three-legged iron pot, helping ourselves to tough putu porridge in our cupped hands.",
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          "ref": "2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 242",
          "text": "Jonathan is volunteering to carve the leg of lamb that was decided on, although there's putu with beans as well as roast potatoes Reed style (or what Jabu knows as white style).",
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        "A form of porridge made from maize meal."
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          "maize",
          "maize"
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        "(South Africa) A form of porridge made from maize meal."
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        {
          "word": "putu pap"
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          "code": "af",
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "maize porridge",
          "word": "poetoe"
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          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "sense": "maize porridge",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "mamalyga",
          "sense": "maize porridge",
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            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "мамалыга"
        }
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      "ipa": "/ˈpuːtuː/",
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  "word": "putu"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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    {
      "word": "putu pap"
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      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "maize porridge",
      "word": "poetoe"
    },
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      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "maize porridge",
      "word": "putu"
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      "roman": "mamalyga",
      "sense": "maize porridge",
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  "word": "putu"
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