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chop suey en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈtsɒp ˈsuːi/ (General-American, rare)
  • /ˈtʃɒp ˈsuːi/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Cantonese 雜碎／杂碎 (zaap⁶ seoi³, “mixed and broken”).

Meanings

  1. (Australia, Philippines, US, countable, uncountable) A stir-fried vegetable dish, served with pieces of beef or pork in a semi-thick sauce, and often soy sauce.
    • There was feasting and joy from Shanghai to the Wall, What with dim-sims, chop-suey and crackers and all, And the donor of these, by the hook of my crook. Was Chiang Ki-Konglong, the Mandarin Cook. 1929 February 10, The Sunday Times, Sydney, page 26, column 7:
    • On the walls about were the hieroglyphic markings of the craft. Across this scene wafted the pungent fragrance of chop suey, dim sims and other delicacies in course of preparation for the funeral feast. 1926 December 16, The Telegraph, Brisbane, page 20, column 7:
    • Without access to key ingredients from their homeland, Chinese immigrants in the United States working on the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s improvised dishes like chow mein and chop suey that nobody back in their native land would have recognized. 2007 June 18, Nina Zagat, Tim Zagat, “Meanwhile: Eating Beyond Sichuan”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
  2. (Canada, UK, countable, uncountable) Steamed bean sprouts served in a semi-thick sauce, and mixed with a choice of meat and/or vegetables.
    • To someone who had spent part of their youth visiting a grandmother in Singapore, a lot of the food they served didn’t seem particularly Chinese to me: the flavour of chop suey with its chicken or pork or prawns, or chow mein, or the omeletty foo yung, never seemed quite right. 2011, Clarissa Dickson Wright, A History of English Food, London: Random House Books, →ISBN, page 455:

Forms

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chop sueys Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

American chop suey

Translations (30)

nan-hbl 雜累碎 /杂累碎 (Cantonese dish) · ceb tsapsoy (Cantonese dish) · sm sapasui (Cantonese dish) · nan-hbl 雜 /杂 (Cantonese dish) · yue 雜碎 /杂碎 (Cantonese dish) · ceb sapsoy (Cantonese dish) · ru кита́йское рагу́ (Cantonese dish) · de Chop Suey (Cantonese dish) · mk чоп суи (Cantonese dish) · hu kínai rizseshús (Cantonese dish) · fr chop suey (Cantonese dish) · nan-hbl 雜碎 /杂碎 (Cantonese dish) · ms capcai (Cantonese dish) · it piatto cantonese con carne e verdure (Cantonese dish) · mr चॉपसुई (Cantonese dish) · ko 찹 수이 (Cantonese dish) · it chop suey (Cantonese dish) · ja チャプスイ (Cantonese dish) · fi chop suey (Cantonese dish) · ru чоп-суэ́й (Cantonese dish) · tl sapsuy (Cantonese dish) · nl tjaptjoi (Cantonese dish) · pt chop suey (Cantonese dish) · ar تْشُوب سُوِي (Cantonese dish) · tl tsapsuy (Cantonese dish) · eo ĉopsuo (Cantonese dish) · id capcai (Cantonese dish) · pl chop suey (Cantonese dish) · cmn 雜碎 /杂碎 (Cantonese dish) · gl chop suey (Cantonese dish)