noun.
Asafetida, especially as used as a seasoning in South Asian cuisine, usually in powdered form mixed with rice flour.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
A dialectal variant of hang.
noun.
An East Indian name for asafetida.
Word Usage
"The production of red meat requires a far greater input of energy then comes out of its consumption yet still I hear no bitc hing from the boys about this nor any effort to eat lower on the food chain …."