chewing sponge
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]chewing sponge (plural chewing sponges)
- (West African English) A bunch of twigs (most commonly of Salvadora persica) that were beaten until fibrous used as a traditional product for dental hygiene purposes.
- 2012 (September), Seth Kojo Kweij: Some Things You Can’t Restore. In: Johannes Preuss (ed.): Ananse Stories told in Ghana. In: Bea Lundt (ed.): Ananse und andere Erzählungen aus Afrika: Zur narrativen Kultur Afrikas aus deutscher und afrikanischer Perspektive. Berlin: Lit Verlag, published in 2018, page 45:
- But Okonoriyaa continued to uproot the plants for the chewing sponge, and whilst she was in the middle of doing that, she suddenly heard a child crying.
Translations
[edit]bunch of fibrous twigs for chewing