Definitions
Etymologies
- Urdu khichṛī, perhaps from Sanskrit kṛsaraḥ, kṛśaraḥ, dish containing sesame, peas, and lentils. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“However there have been a lot of warm and genuinely friendly people too, such as my neighbours Madam Aida, Dada and Mustafa who took me in on the first day and fed me a barbecued fish, some incredibly sweet tea and a strange mixture of noodles, rice and lentils that sounds like 'kedgeree'.”
“He's been disobeying the cook and feeding that stray cat that's been hanging around leftover kedgeree from breakfast, and he doesn't want anyone to find out.”
“Foreign – save for a kedgeree or two from the Raj – was alien fare.”
“My dad occasionally used to make kedgeree as a Sunday treat – and, fussy, ungrateful child that I was, I'd go through it with a fine-pronged fork and pick out all traces of fish before wolfing down the buttery, delicately spiced rice.”
“Rice is nice – think paella, or kedgeree – but this is one of those rare and beautiful unions where both parties shine brighter in each other's company: from poached salmon and Jersey royals to Jansson's temptation and cullen skink, the combination just works.”
“The women, in tunics, were buxom peasants-no tall, willowy jungle princesses here; their voices, shrill and sharp, floated across the stream as they fetched water or busied themselves at the fires, with the kidneys and kedgeree, no doubt.”
“The kedgeree reminded me in many ways of the jollof rice my grandmother used to cook, using palm oil instead of groundnut oil and any odds and ends she found in her kitchen...”
“Last night to dinner with a friend to celebrate his elevation at work, he had cooked a kedgeree- think jollof rice with hardboiled eggs and smoked fish, served with a delicious dal and yoghurt.”
“The morning brings news that the first printing of The Bonkers Code has already sold out: I allow myself a second helping of kedgeree.”
“If this kind of stuff is appearing in the Telegraph - and the retired colonels aren't choking on the kedgeree when they read it - we're truly making progress.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kedgeree’.
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Humours of Old Bombay
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Another 250 Spelling Words
Another range of words from the intermediate to the advanced speller's level.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
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sionnach's Words
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Interesting Foods
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
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Scottish Food and Drink Words
haggis, neep, tatty, cranachan, crowdie, crowdie-time, Scotch broth, Scotch egg, cock-a-leekie, cockieleekie, skirlie, collop and 20 more...
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New England
Recipes from my 1947 (original copyright, 1939) "The United States Regional Cook Book" which is a cookbook divided into recipes from 11 "regions" of the US, plus an "auxiliary" section. I'm highli...
clam juice cocktail, sail boats, quahog chowder, oxtail soup, barnstable clam pie, glouster codfish ..., salt codfish with..., baked eels, baked finnan haddie, kedgeree, fish hash, fish mousse and 22 more...
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Food&Kitchen
drupe, brick, offal, triffle, scullion, larder, cog, tub, swill, dreg, banger, kedgeree and 55 more...
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good eggs
eggjectives - words that describe different ways to prepare eggs
shirred, poached, over easy, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, scrambled, deviled, omelet, hollandaise, eggnog, salmagundi, caudle and 27 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir Variants include kitcherie, kitchari or kitchiri.
Jun 7, 2010
chained_bear "'For all its mortifying effects,' said Stephen as he and Fox sat down to their kedgeree, 'you must admit that this invitation to Biliong is a great diplomatic coup...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 217 Mar 4, 2008