Meaning
A wooden stick or paddle used to stir stiff, thick cooking that a spoon can't handle — the 'turn cornmeal', hominy, or a big pot of porridge, where you must keep the mixture moving hard so it doesn't lump or stick and burn. The sturdy stirring stick (or flat 'pot stick') is a specialist tool of the Jamaican kitchen for these dense, arm-tiring dishes.
Examples
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Turn di cornmeal wid di stirring stick.
Stir the cornmeal with the stirring stick.
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Keep stir di porridge so it nuh lump.
Keep stirring the porridge so it doesn't lump.
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Yuh arm tired from di stirring stick.
Your arm gets tired from the stirring stick.
Origin
From 'stirring' + 'stick'; the wooden stirrer for stiff cooking. See [[tun-cornmeal]], [[pot-spoon]].
How it’s used
A wooden stick for stirring stiff cooking (turn cornmeal, porridge). See [[tun-cornmeal]], [[pot-spoon]].