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mock-turtle

mock-turtle noun: mock turtle soup.

Noun

mock-turtle (uncountable)

  1. mock turtle soup
    • This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341
    • O, this is he that disembodied matter,
      And prov’d that incorporeal corporations
      Put nothing in no platter,
      And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians”, in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386

Questions about mock-turtle

What does mock-turtle mean?
Mock-turtle means mock turtle soup.
What part of speech is mock-turtle?
Mock-turtle is a noun.

Words near mock-turtle in the dictionary

  1. mock-epic
  2. mock-heroic
  3. mock-heroics
  4. mock-orange
  5. mock-Tudor
  6. mock-turtle
  7. mock-up
  8. mock-ups
  9. mockability
  10. mockable
  11. mockably

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