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gooducken

gooducken noun: a dish composed of a goose stuffed with duck which, in turn, has been stuffed with chicken.

Noun

gooducken (countable and uncountable, plural gooduckens)

  1. A dish composed of a goose stuffed with duck which, in turn, has been stuffed with chicken.
    • Suppliers of gooduckens say orders this Christmas are more than double those of last year, buoyed by the support of celebrities such as the actress Emma Thompson.2004 November 21, gwendolen, quoting “Three-in-one bird is big this Christmas” by Will Iredale, “Re: Something for Nella?”, in alt.support.loneliness.lighthouse-keepers (Usenet)
    • The must-have centrepiece this Christmas seems to be the ‘gooducken’, which is a goose stuffed with a duck that has been stuffed with a chicken.2004 December 16, Evening Standard, London, page 36

Examples of gooducken in a sentence

  • One drawback: Unless you're an expert butcher, you will probably need to have your gooducken, goopheasen or other variant prepared for you.2007 December 5, FunMan, quoting “What is a gooducken?”, “Gooducken”, in nl.culinair (Usenet):
  • The English prepare a gooducken in which the turkey is replaced with a goose.2021 November 25, Greg Hilburn, “Louisiana’s Thanksgiving gifts to the world”, in The News-Star, volume 93, number 41, page 4A:
  • Turducken is a dish where a deboned duck is stuffed into a deboned chicken, which is then stuffed into a deboned turkey. […] The English variant, Gooducken,^([sic]) replaces the turkey with a goose.2024 November 25, Marley Malenfant, “What is a turducken? Where can you get one this Thanksgiving?”, in Battle Creek Enquirer, volume 125...

Forms of gooducken

pluralgooduckens

Origin of gooducken

Blend of goose + duck + chicken.

Questions about gooducken

What does gooducken mean?
Gooducken means a dish composed of a goose stuffed with duck which, in turn, has been stuffed with chicken.
How do you use gooducken in a sentence?
One drawback: Unless you're an expert butcher, you will probably need to have your gooducken, goopheasen or other variant prepared for you.
What part of speech is gooducken?
Gooducken is a noun.
What is the plural of gooducken?
The plural of gooducken is gooduckens.

Words near gooducken in the dictionary

  1. goodtime
  2. goodtime Charley
  3. goodtime Charlie
  4. goodtime girl
  5. goodtime girls
  6. gooducken
  7. gooduckens
  8. goodun
  9. gooduns
  10. Goodwick
  11. goodwife

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