moori

M3O1O1R1I1

noun

Puffed rice.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounmoori (uncountable)

alternative muri

  1. IndiauncountablePuffed rice.

    Then, she filled a smaller tin with the fresh moori and gave it to Felänee, saying, “Give this to your little fellow.”

    2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee
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    Women had entered the rice and moori (puffed rice) business and set up shops for the first time, enabled by loans from the SHGs.

    2005, Neera Burra, Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive, Ranjani K Murthy, editors, Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment: Linking the Triad, page 258

    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 […]

    2014, Devashish Makhija, Forgetting

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