Noun: rubaboo
Sample Sentences
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He ate the greasy rubaboo without a grumble, and when there was nothing in the pots for supper, he pulled his belt tighter, and said not a word, though all his growing bones cried out for food. [1940, Mary Jane Carr, Young Mac of Fort Vancouver, page 25:]
Nouns inflected like rubaboo
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Michif rubaboo, from French roux (“thickener”) + Proto-Algonquian *aboo (“soup”). Compare Ojibwe naboo (“soup”), -aaboo (“liquid”). See: French Nouns '
roux'.