poutine
/puˈtin/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
Canadian usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
Canadian usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
Etymology
Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * a variant of French pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or * from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified. The Canadian French word is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /puˈtin/
- British English: /puːˈtiːn/