moori
English
Alternative forms
Noun
moori (uncountable)
- (India) Puffed rice.
- 2005, Neera Burra, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive, Ranjani K Murthy (Eds.), Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad, p. 258:
- Women had entered the rice and moori (puffed rice) business and set up shops for the first time, enabled by loans from the SHGs.
- 2011, Deepika Phukan, translating Arupa Patangia Kalita, The Story of Felanee:
- Then, she filled a smaller tin with the fresh moori and gave it to Felänee, saying, “Give this to your little fellow.”
- 2014, Devashish Makhija, Forgetting:
- Soon he gave up coolieing and started selling moori, carrying a large sack of puffed rice through the streets of Calcutta, shouting ‘moori…moori’ and watching for windows to open and housewives to beckon him up musty building stairs […]
- 2005, Neera Burra, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive, Ranjani K Murthy (Eds.), Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad, p. 258:
Kikuyu
Noun
moori class 9/10 (plural moori)
- Alternative spelling of mori
- Mũrĩa moori yake ndathekagwo. - He who eats his heifer does not get mocked.
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