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bouja

bouja is the alternative form of booyah.

Meaning of booyah

Noun

booyah (countable and uncountable, plural booyahs)

  1. (colloquial) A thick stew of European origin made throughout the Upper Midwestern United States, based on a broth of meat bones to which vegetables are added.
    • I'd say it's a mixture of veggies, the stewing chickens and the long cooking time that are essential to make real booyah.

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Questions about bouja

What is bouja the alternative form of?
Bouja is the alternative form of booyah.

Words near bouja in the dictionary

  1. bouillon cube
  2. bouillon cubes
  3. bouillons
  4. bouillotte
  5. bouj
  6. bouja
  7. Boujailles
  8. boujee
  9. boujée
  10. bouk
  11. Boukedes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bouja (page history and authors); booyah (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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