Definition of "mealies" [meal•ies]

• Plural form of mealie. (noun)

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• "Yesterday my rations for the day were four biscuits and an ounce of coffee and of tea, with corn which they call mealies which I could not eat but which saved my horse's life."
• "He was growing three different varieties of grain: corn (a variety commonly called mealies, which could be plucked off the cob by the kernel and eaten or ground into a meal), mahango (to make the local beer or flour), and sorghum (dried and ground also into a type of flour)."
• "She returns a few minutes later with a large plastic bag of corn on the cob, called mealies."