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

    French

    Pronunciation

    Participle

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

    1. past participle of bouillir

    Further reading

    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
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