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bouilli

/buːˈjiː/

bouilli noun: meat stewed with juice.

Noun

bouilli (countable and uncountable, plural bouillis)

  1. Meat stewed with juice.
    • Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342

bouilli meaning in Tamil

bouilli in Tamil

வெந்த உணவு

Forms of bouilli

pluralbouillis

Origin of bouilli

Borrowed from French bouilli (“boiled”).

Words that rhyme with bouilli

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Questions about bouilli

What does bouilli mean?
Bouilli means meat stewed with juice.
What is bouilli in Tamil?
Bouilli in Tamil is வெந்த உணவு. See Bouilli meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bouilli?
Bouilli is a noun.
How do you pronounce bouilli?
Bouilli is pronounced /buːˈjiː/.
What is the plural of bouilli?
The plural of bouilli is bouillis.

Words near bouilli in the dictionary

  1. Bouguer's halo
  2. Bouguer's law
  3. Bouie
  4. bouillabaisse
  5. bouillabaisses
  6. bouilli
  7. bouillie
  8. bouillion
  9. bouillions
  10. bouillis
  11. bouillon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bouilli (page history and authors); bouilli (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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