Noun: poutine
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | poutine |
| Plural f | poutines |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like poutine
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Attested from 1810. Etymology uncertain, possibly either:
2. * a variant of pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or
3. * from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified.
4. Sense 1 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.
5. Cognates
6. * Michif poutchine (possibly) See: English Nouns '
pudding', French Nouns '
pouding', English Nouns '
pudding'.
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