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Burgoo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. New England Any of several thick stews, originally an oatmeal porridge.

n. Chiefly Kentucky & Southern Illinois A spicy stew made of poultry, game, other meats, and vegetables, usually cooked outdoors.

n. Chiefly Kentucky & Southern Illinois A picnic featuring such a stew.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. a seafaring dish from the days of sail; a sort of porridge seasoned with sugar, salt and butter

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A seamen's term for a dish made of boiled oatmeal seasoned with salt, butter, and sugar; gruel.

n. A kind of soup made with many different kinds of meat and vegetables, highly peppered and served very hot: popular in Kentucky and other places, especially at barbecues, picnics, and other outdoor feasts.

n. A barbecue, picnic, or woodland feast at which the soup burgoo is served.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a gathering at which burgoo stew is served

n. porridge made of rolled oats

n. thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States

Word Usage

"The burgoo was a mixture of oatmeal and scraps of beef fat that had simmered all night on the galley stove."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

cookout porridge stew

Variant

burgout

Form

goo