eba

A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.

Noun

  1. A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
    • I don’t grumble, even though eba clings to surfaces, especially wooden ones, like superglue. - 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 18:

Origin

From Yoruba ẹ̀bà.

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