Associations to the word «Tamale»

Wiktionary

TAMALE, noun. Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

Dictionary definition

TAMALE, noun. A city in northern Ghana.
TAMALE, noun. Corn and cornmeal dough stuffed with a meat mixture then wrapped in corn husks and steamed.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats