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chicken mami

chicken mami noun: a mami soup dish of noodles and chicken meat.

Noun

chicken mami (uncountable)

  1. (Philippines) a mami soup dish of noodles and chicken meat

Origin of chicken mami

From chicken + mami, from a partial calque of Hokkien 雞肉麵 /鸡肉面 (koe-mah-mī, “chicken noodles”). See also Hokkien 雞肉 /鸡肉 (koe-mah).

Questions about chicken mami

What does chicken mami mean?
Chicken mami means a mami soup dish of noodles and chicken meat.
What part of speech is chicken mami?
Chicken mami is a noun.

Words near chicken mami in the dictionary

  1. chicken liver
  2. chicken livers
  3. chicken lollipop
  4. chicken lollipops
  5. chicken louse
  6. chicken mami
  7. chicken Marengo
  8. chicken Maryland
  9. chicken mushroom
  10. chicken mushrooms
  11. chicken noodle soup

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