poutine
A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily…A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
» That place has good vegan poutine.
Meaning
2 senses(Canada, countable, uncountable)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.
Poutine
пути́нputín
путі́нputín
a Canadian dish made with french fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy
(Canada, countable, uncountable)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.
Examples
4 sentencesThat place has good vegan poutine.
That spot has a good plant-based poutine.
I'll have the vegan poutine.
Poutine isn't Russian; it's Quebecois.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of vBorrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
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Forms
plural: poutinesWord family
5 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable