Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A zucchini.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Chiefly Brit. a marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small; -- called also
zucchini . - n. Chiefly Brit. a small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green; -- called also
zucchini .
WordNet 3.0
- n. small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green
- n. marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge ("vegetable marrow, marrow squash"). (Wiktionary)
- French dialectal, diminutive of courge, gourd, from Old French cohourde, from Latin cucurbita. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Google uses this method in a program they wrote called courgette to reduce the size of the patches it sends out for Chrome, but Red Bend the mobile phone software company has a patent on this method and has filed suit against Google.”
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“Perhaps I should mention my bugbear is when zucchini are called courgette in English/Italian cookbooks ;”
“Did you know, btw, that the zucchini we get in England, known as courgette, is nothing like this size and more like a small marrow.”
“Using your food processor's shredder blade, make zucchini (aka courgette) "noodles.”
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“A woman successfully fended off a bear attack in Montana with the only weapon she could find - a large zucchini also known as a courgette, officials said Thursday.”
“The alternate name courgette is the French word for the vegetable, with the same spelling, and is commonly used in France, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.”
“The alternate name courgette is the French word for the vegetable, with the same spelling, and is commonly used in France, Ireland, and the United”
“Whoopsie, "courgette" would be the proper spelling.”
“Gabriele/Bernita - so it seems 'courgette' is very much the minority name :”
“I'm glad you explained about the carrots -- I was feeling disoriented and wondering if there was a new kind of courgette!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘courgette’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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Girls I wouldn't go out with
Nomen omen
chastity, faith, prudence, constance, virginia, rythm belcher, nutcracker, goldie lock, medusa, circe, delilah, charybdis and 47 more...
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Get, Got, Gotten
get a move on, misbegotten, got the gimmes, don't get me started, man's gotta eat, get a life, get lost, got religion, cat got your tongue?, get together, get the lead out, got milk? and 72 more...
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Frenchies
courgette, soufflé, siège, folie à deux, laissez faire, élan, dilettante, boulangerie, au contraire, raconteur, chanson, epaulette
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rodrigo's list
aspidistra, mosaic, murmur, sussuration, clap, assiduous, hasp, clench, rhythm, solemn, seldom, slash and 18 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 more...
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The word collector
My collection of words that are intriguing, but don't fit my other lists.
snailery, aplasia, postulant, aigrette, caravel, frigate, capeskin, suffusion, schist, varlet, sepulchral, anisotropy and 317 more...
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Bonjour, cheese-eating surrender monk...
aka words we stole from the French
jejune, odalisque, puissant, sobriquet, minatory, remand, marauding, pullet, paragon, sanguine, parvenu, en passant and 20 more...
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Gourds & Melons
pumpkin, squash, zucchini, chayote, cocozelle, cucumber, pepo, honeydew, watermelon, cucurbit, loofah, casabanana and 54 more...
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Food & co
hollandaise, crostini, couscous, semolina, polenta, soufflé, quiche, béarnaise, aioli, tiramisu, biryani, chinois and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for courgette.

yarb Of course, but it's funny because they're typically trying to imitate an accent that has all but disappeared from common use (received pronunciation or BBC English), rather than simply doing a bad job of it.
Am I alone in finding Hugh Lawrie's pseudo-American accent on "House" rather strange to listen to? Jul 4, 2008
pterodactyl I agree with chained_bear -- it's wonderful to hear people with British accents try to pronounce an American R. I once heard a guy on the BBC try to do a George Bush impression, and boy, that was downright hilarious.
And how about the opposite situation? When an American tries to do a British accent, is it amusing to British ears? Jul 4, 2008
reesetee That's an hilarious, Asativum. Jul 3, 2008
asativum There's an hairy guy named Herb just down the street. He's an hoot. Jul 3, 2008
chained_bear I say "an urrb." I don't really do that crazy RRRRR thing. But I love to hear people with British accents try to do an American R. It always makes me laugh till I cry. :) Especially the word "dork." Jul 3, 2008
reesetee How about "an harmonica"? ;-> Jul 3, 2008
yarb But do you pronounce it "anurrrrrb"? Jul 3, 2008
bilby An herb sounds ugly to me, like a fake Cockney affectation. Gives me an hissy fit. Jul 3, 2008
chained_bear Yes, I say "an herb." I do NOT say "an historian." Jul 3, 2008
yarb Yes, but I'm half-Brit and grew up there. Canada seems to be split on this as on other Brit / Yank linguistic divides. Some people drop the h, but I think a majority pronounce it. Jul 2, 2008
pterodactyl Hey yarb, aren't you in Vancouver? I thought they pronounced it "erb" in Canada, just like we do in the States. Jul 2, 2008
yarb In the UK we just call the seeds "coriander seeds"...
I notice you say "an herb" - does this mean that you pronounce it "urrrrrb"? I LOVE that. Jul 2, 2008
chained_bear Coriander in the U.S. is actually a spice (not an herb) from the seeds of the cilantro plant. The herb (leaves) is cilantro.
That's odd, though, yarb. I know scallions are called spring onions, because that's the phrase I grew up with. I only learned they were called scallions or green onions later on. Jul 2, 2008
dontcry Here corgi, corgi. Jul 2, 2008
yarb I had blank looks asking for spring onions (scallions or green onions) and coriander (cilantro) soon after leaving the UK.
*Imagining dontcry stalking young female corgis*. Jul 2, 2008
chained_bear Yeah, I had a similar experience using an Australian cookbook that calls for capsicum. But I figured it out pretty quick. Jul 2, 2008
dontcry I remember when I first was reading a cookbook from England and the recipe called for courgettes. The only thing I could come up with, in my mind, were the dogs those royal people keep around all the time! Still makes me laugh -- 'cause it was a vegetarian cookbook! Jul 1, 2008
bilby And they're both vegetables!
Itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny
don't forget courgette's zucchini Jul 1, 2008
pterodactyl Hey! It's a mnemonic device! Eggplant and Elton John both begin with E!!!
*very excited about this* Jul 1, 2008
pterodactyl Zucchini. But I only know that because of the recent conversation on eggplant, and because Elton John is still playing in my head.
"Goodbye aubergine, though I never knew you at all..." Jul 1, 2008
bilby Alright ptero, what is it? No WordNET cheating now! Jun 30, 2008