bouilli
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French bouilli (“boiled”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bouilli (countable and uncountable, plural bouillis)
- 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 edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
bouilli (feminine bouillie, masculine plural bouillis, feminine plural bouillies)
Further reading edit
- “bouilli”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Louisiana Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French bouillir (“to boil”), compare Haitian Creole bouyi.
Verb edit
bouilli
- to beg
References edit
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Norman edit
Adjective edit
bouilli m