kai

Food.

Noun

  1. Food.
    • Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate. - 1995, Graeme Williams, The...
    • Got to go now and get some kai. - 2003, Carmen, “Is there really a censor in NZ?!”, in nz.general (Usenet):
    • When the sausage man handed the kai over, Kerry passed two wieners to a pair of skinny white kids who had been watching the queue the whole time. - 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press,...

Origin

Borrowed from Māori kai. Doublet of makan (via Malay) in Malaysian and Singaporean English varieties.

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