poutine

Pronunciation: /puːˈtiːn/

The English word “poutine” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.

Etymology

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…

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