blue drawers
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Caribbean dessert made from batata, coconut, spices, and brown sugar, boiled in a banana leaf.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The dark blue color imparted by the banana leaf and the shape of the fold leads some to call this dessert blue drawers."
- "The mixtures are wrapped and tied in banana leaf parcels and steamed. Names for these steamed cakes are boyo, duckoono, tie-a-leaf, and blue drawers, as the leaf stains the pudding a faint bluish color."
- "Blue drawers, also known as tie-a-leaf or dukunu, combine banana, coconut, sweet potato, and/or cornmeal in small squares, that are then wrapped in banana leaves and boiled for an hour."