poutine
Syllables: pou·tineUK/puːˈtiːn/US/puˈtin/
poutine noun: a dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
Noun
poutine (countable and uncountable, plural poutines)
- A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
- Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
- In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.
poutine meaning in Hindi, Punjabi, Arabic and Indonesian
poutine in Hindi
- dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy; any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish
- पूटीन pūṭīn
poutine in Punjabi
- dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy; any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish
- ਪੂਟੀਨ pūṭīn
poutine in Arabic
- dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy; any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish
- بوتين
poutine in Indonesian
- dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy; any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish
- poutine
More languagesFewer languages
- poutine in Persian
- پوتین
- poutine in Vietnamese
- poutine
Forms of poutine
| plural | poutines |
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Origin of poutine
Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either: * a variant of French pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or * from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified. The Canadian French word is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.
Words formed from poutine
Phrases with poutine
Words that rhyme with poutine
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- glean
- between
- byzantine
- canteen
- greene
- preen
- Racine
- careen
- intervene
- lean
- wean
- Christine
- obscene
- routine
- skene
- spleen
- submarine
- cuisine
- gasoline
- irene
- red bean
- serene
- -ene
- baleen
- demean
- eleventeen
- fascine
- gombeen
- latrine
- pristine
- Qazvin
- sheen
- tangerine
- unclean
- unseen
- vaccine
- amine
- aquamarine
- Beane
- beseen
- bottine
- chopine
- Enigma machine
- Eugene
- gene
- in between
- internecine
- jean
Questions about poutine
- What does poutine mean?
- Poutine means a dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
- What is poutine in Hindi?
- Poutine in Hindi is पूटीन (pūṭīn). See Poutine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is poutine?
- Poutine is a noun.
- How do you pronounce poutine?
- Poutine is pronounced /puːˈtiːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of poutine?
- The plural of poutine is poutines.
Words near poutine in the dictionary
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