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cutchery

cutchery is the alternative spelling of cutcherry.

cutchery is the alternative spelling of kedgeree.

Noun

cutchery

  1. A spice: kitchery.
  2. An Indian dish of rice boiled with split pulse, onions, eggs, butter, and condiments

Meaning of cutcherry

Noun

cutcherry (plural cutcherries)

  1. An administration office in India.
    • The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.1914, George Robert Aberigh-Mackay, Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
  2. (India) A hall used for business, political, or social assemblies, such as a magistrate's court or a building housing a public agency.
    • I walked through the ruins of the Fort of Bangalore ... it is not without some degree of magnificence. On the upper storey it contains four halls, each comprising two balconies of state for the prince, and each balcony faces a different Cutchery, or court for giving audience. No person, except a...1807, Francis Buchanan, A Journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Cananara and Malabar, London
  3. Kaempferia galanga, a plant resembling ginger.

Meaning of kedgeree

Noun

kedgeree (countable and uncountable, plural kedgerees)

  1. (obsolete) Khichdi.
  2. An Anglo-Indian dish of flaked, smoked haddock, eggs and rice.
    • Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

Forms of cutchery

pluralcutcheries
alternative formcutcherry
alternative formkatcheri
alternative formkatcherry
alternative formkacheri

Questions about cutchery

What does cutchery mean?
Cutchery means a spice: kitchery.
What is cutchery the alternative spelling of?
Cutchery is the alternative spelling of cutcherry.
What part of speech is cutchery?
Cutchery is a noun.
What is the plural of cutchery?
The plural of cutchery is cutcheries.

Words near cutchery in the dictionary

  1. cutcheree
  2. cutcheries
  3. cutcherries
  4. cutcherry
  5. Cutchers
  6. cutchery
  7. cutches
  8. Cutchin
  9. Cutchins
  10. cutdown
  11. cutdowns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cutchery (page history and authors); cutcherry (page history and authors); kedgeree (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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