poutine

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English[edit]

WOTD – 1 July 2023

Etymology[edit]

A dish of classic poutine (sense 1).

Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:[1]

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.[1]

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poutine (countable and uncountable, plural poutines) (Canada)

  2. A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
    Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.
  3. Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
    In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “poutine, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “poutine, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Poutine, the Quebecois patates frites based dish (sense 1).

Attested from 1810. Etymology uncertain, possibly either:[1]

Sense 1 is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restauranteur 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.[1]

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poutine f (plural poutines)

  2. (Quebec) poutine
  3. (Acadia) any of several potato-based dishes
  4. (Louisiana) dumpling
  5. (Louisiana) bread pudding, pudding
  6. (Quebec, obsolete) any of several pudding-like desserts
  7. (Quebec, obsolete) a messy situation or complicated thing; a quagmire
  8. (Quebec, obsolete) a fat woman

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Compare “poutine, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “poutine, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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