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she-crab soup

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables
she-crab -soup
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rich soup, similar to bisque, made of milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and (traditionally) crab roe, with a dash of dry sherry.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

So called because the roe is carried by the female crab.

Usage

Inflected Forms

she-crab soups (plural)

Questions

What does she-crab soup mean?
A rich soup, similar to bisque, made of milk or heavy cream, crab or fish stock, Atlantic blue crab meat, and (traditionally) crab roe, with a dash of dry sherry.
Where does she-crab soup come from?
So called because the roe is carried by the female crab.

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