smoored, participial adjective

/smʊə(r)d/
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AfrikaansShow more Englished form of Afrikaans gesmoorde braised (usually of steak).
Braised, stewed; smoor adjective. Usually in the collocations smoored fish, smoored snoek.
1890 A.G. Hewitt Cape Cookery 6Smoored Kreeft. Boil the kreeft first.
1913 A. Glossop Barnes’s S. Afr. Hsehold Guide 52Smoored snoek.
[1919 M.M. Steyn Diary 54George,..was lying fast asleep..; dreaming, probably, of ‘Gesmoorde visch’ and ‘Kreef kerrie’, and other dainty Cape dishes that he so well knew how to prepare.]
1988 F. Williams Cape Malay Cookbk 22Smoored Fish with Tomatoes. Another quick and easy economical dish.
1989 I. Jones Woman’s World Cookbk 49Try smoked angelfish for a variation of this casserole, which is a different approach to ‘smoored’ snoek.
Braised, stewed; smoor adjective. Usually in the collocations smoored fish, smoored snoek.
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smoor, verb transitiveintransitivev.smouch, nounn.
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