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mulligatawny en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /mʌlɪɡəˈtɔːni/

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil மிளகுத்தண்ணீர் (miḷakuttaṇṇīr, literally “pepper water”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning.
   • Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner. 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
   • At the top was a cod's shoulders and head, whose intellectual faculties were rather over much developed; and at the bottom was soup called mulligatawny—some indefinite mixture of curry-powder and ducks' feet, the first spoonful of which called from its master a look of thunder and lightning up the table. 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 127:

Forms

Translations (6)

my မလုပ်တာနီ (Indian soup) · my မနုပ်တာနီ (Indian soup) · cmn 咖喱肉湯 /咖喱肉汤 (Indian soup) · ta மிளகுத்தண்ணீர் (Indian soup) · fi mulligatawny-keitto (Indian soup) · gv anvroie injinagh (Indian soup)