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mulligatawnee

mulligatawnee is the obsolete 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

Questions about mulligatawnee

What is mulligatawnee the obsolete form of?
Mulligatawnee is the obsolete form of mulligatawny.

Words near mulligatawnee in the dictionary

  1. mulligan car
  2. mulligan cars
  3. mulligan stew
  4. mulligan stews
  5. mulligans
  6. mulligatawnee
  7. mulligatawnies
  8. mulligatawny
  9. mulligrubs
  10. Mullikin
  11. Mullikins

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