bouilli

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouilli (“boiled”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːˈjiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

bouilli (countable and uncountable, plural bouillis)

1. Meat stewed with juice.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342:

     Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.

See also

• cuir bouilli

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ji/

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Participle

bouilli (feminine bouillie, masculine plural bouillis, feminine plural bouillies)

1. past participle of bouillir

Further reading

• “bouilli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French bouillir (“to boil”), compare Haitian Creole bouyi.

Verb

bouilli

1. to beg

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Norman

Adjective

bouilli m

1. (Guernsey) boiled