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mullagatawny

mullagatawny is the alternative form of mulligatawny.

Meaning of mulligatawny

Noun

mulligatawny (countable and uncountable, plural mulligatawnies)

  1. An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning.
    • At the top was a cod's shoulders and head, whose intellectual faculties were rather over much developed; and at the bottom was soup called mulligatawny—some indefinite mixture of curry-powder and ducks' feet, the first spoonful of which called from its master a look of thunder and lightning up the...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 127

Forms of mullagatawny

pluralmullagatawnies

Questions about mullagatawny

What is mullagatawny the alternative form of?
Mullagatawny is the alternative form of mulligatawny.

Words near mullagatawny in the dictionary

  1. mull over
  2. mull up
  3. mulla
  4. Mulla Creek
  5. mullagatawnies
  6. mullagatawny
  7. mullah
  8. mullahawn
  9. mullahcracies
  10. mullahcracy
  11. mullahcratic

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