nounA food product made of cornmeal.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryEtymology tree
Latin portiōder.
Old French porcionbor.
Middle English porcioun
English portionbor.
Swahili poshobor.
English posho
Borrowed from Swahili posho, itself from English portion.
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