poutine

English edit

WOTD – 1 July 2023

Etymology edit

A dish of classic poutine (sense 1).

Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:^[1]

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 word has not been identified.

The Canadian French word 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.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /puːˈtiːn/
(General American) IPA^(key): /puˈtin/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /puːˈtiːn/, /puːˈtɪn/
Audio (CA) (file)
Rhymes: -iːn, -ɪn
Hyphenation: pou‧tine

Noun edit

poutine (countable and uncountable, plural poutines) (Canada)

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.
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.

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

poutinerie

Translations edit

dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy; any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish

Arabic: بوتين ?
Armenian: փութին (pʻutʻin), պուտին (putin)
Basque: poutine
Bulgarian: пути́н (putín), пуци́н (pucín)
Catalan: poutine ?
Chinese:
Cantonese: 芝士肉汁薯條／芝士肉汁薯条 (zi¹ si^6-2 juk⁶ zap¹ syu⁴ tiu^4-2)

Mandarin: 盖浇薯條 (gàijiāoshǔtiáo)
Dutch: poutine (nl) ?
Esperanto: pucino
Finnish: poutine
French: poutine (fr) f
Galician: poutine
German: Poutine ?
Greek: πουτίν ? (poutín)
Hebrew: פוטין ?
Indonesian: poutine
Italian: poutine ?
Japanese: プーティン (pūtin), プーチン (pūchin)
Javanese: poutine
Korean: 푸틴 (putin)
Luxembourgish: poutine
Macedonian: пу́тин m (pútin)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: poutine ?

Nynorsk: poutine ?
Persian: پوتین (fa)
Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see frytki z sosem pieczeniowym f pl, poutine
Portuguese: poutine ?
Punjabi: ਪੂਟੀਨ (pūṭīn)
Romanian: poutine ?
Russian: пути́н (ru) m (putín)
Scottish Gaelic: poutine
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: please add this translation if you can

Roman: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: poutine ?
Ukrainian: путі́н ? (putín)
Veps: putin
Vietnamese: poutine

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “poutine, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “poutine, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French edit

Etymology edit

Poutine, the Quebecois patates frites based dish (sense 1).

Attested from 1810. Etymology uncertain, possibly either:^[1]

a variant of 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 word has not been identified.

Sense 1 is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restauranteur 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.^[1]

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