duckanoo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Caribbean dessert made with sweet potato, coconut, spices and brown sugar, all tied up in a banana leaf.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
duckanoos (plural)
duckano (alternative)
duckoono (alternative)
duckunoo (alternative)
ducunu (alternative)
dukunu (alternative)