Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Quebec A dish consisting of french fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada
- n. Quebec Any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
Etymologies
- From Quebec French, of unclear origins. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Log in to Reply zilch (UID#3420) on November 24th, 2009 at 12: 32 pm poutine is good. best served with beer and hockey.”
“I have it on good authority from a web whore that poutine is pronounced "disco fries" in the big apple.”
“Avis -- Well, the curds that come from this aren't exactly large and chunky like they would be if you used rennet -- they're more cornmeal sized than what you'd have in poutine.”
“Canadians love their Tim Horton ' s coffee, while the Nanaimo bar and Quebec ' s gooey combination of French fries, gravy and cheese curds, known as poutine , are probably the key Canadian contributions to global cuisine.”
“They serve french fries and a Canadian treat called poutine, which entails the dumping of gravy and cheese curds on top of your fries.”
“ROBERTS: And including poutine, as it's called here, poutine, which is the famous dish -- the French fries covered in gravy covered in cheese curds.”
“I take those French fries, put certified organic gravy and 100% certified organic cheese on top, called poutine, is this poutine any good for you?”
“But can the increasingly popular Quebecois dish known as poutine - that messy mix of french fries, sauce and cheese curds - now be considered a gooey source of Canada-wide pride?”
“To call poutine a heavy dish is putting it lightly.”
“Billing itself now as "the first mobile game for business travelers," Jetset (as it's now known) uses the iPhone's location-awareness to link fliers to whichever airport they're currently in to unlock special local souvenirs (your guess as to which have to be in to unlock the 'poutine' and 'Greek coffee-cup'), which can then be sent to friends via its interconnected Facebook app.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poutine’.
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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the teen years
inspired by mopery
angst in your pants, hair mascara, taking nine inch ..., 'in love' with 10..., my internet frien..., muffin top, theatre kids, trenchcoat in gym..., shades indoors, pathetic hooky, jesus, mom!, poutine and 43 more...
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O Canada
Words known to Canadians. These may not be understood by other North Americans, eh?
zamboni, poutine, touque, zed, inukshuk, noseeum, timbits, Alberta clipper, beer parlour, bonspiel, CANDU, chesterfield and 35 more...
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Recently Loved Words
Valentine's Day is coming up, so here's a list of words that have been "loved" here on Wordnik (our favorite site with a heart as part of its logo).
howl, lichenous, uncomplicated, siliceous, clatter, hubris, dervish, articulated, acerbic, Recently Loved Words, mellifluous, anomaly and 45 more...
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curds in the whey
teleological, xenolithic and liminal experiences the meanings of words often take.
threshold, turquoise, sopaipilla, pizzazz, galenious, xayeh, wenima, hisatwuwuyom, wordledge, wordlock, allri(ght)te, koanside and 9 more...
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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.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 366 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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travellers' tales
Useful words to have in your backpack.
safavid, almohad, alhambra, taklamakan, wado, inukshuk, eh, ghazal, euskera, xocolatl, kleinur, janglinanga and 3 more...
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Asativum's Words
tatterdemalion, truthiness, eldritch, gemütlich, aa, pahoehoe, uffish, beamish, but, zymurgy, tarnation, malapropism and 59 more...
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jewels in your mouth
things you'd want to role around your tongue
poignant, chode, usa, baba ganoush, mythopoeia, curandera, banshee, ferrell, beatnick, poutine, la noche oscura d..., whipper snapper
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paul's Words
flitter, misogyny, misanthropy, sebaceous, ulnar, limbo, consonant, sickle, ravenous, engorge, succulent, consummate and 23 more...
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Food
bacon, sweetbread, haricot, braise, render, flounder, aubergine, artichoke, endive, poutine, offal, omnivore and 1 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for poutine.
apsalar French fries covered in cheese curds and gravy. Jul 19, 2009
chained_bear strev, that's a great story. :) Jun 29, 2009
rolig Also a not so tasty Russian strongman (in a traditional French spelling of the name). Jun 26, 2009
bilby Porca puttana! Jun 26, 2009
strev be careful how you pronounce this tasty word. I uttered it incorrectly in Quebec causing the staff to buckle over laughing.
They said, "Your beer is coming right up but the hooker will take half an hour to get here."
Jun 26, 2009
scarequotes French fries, cheese curds, and gravy. Popular in Canada and among people who hate their arteries. Jun 10, 2009
muskox
Although poutine is a wonderful dish by itself, it can be used to augment the flaor and nutritional value of many other foods. For example, consider the following exchange:
Waiter: What would you like for dinner?
Hungry ninja: I'll start with the pork chops with applesauce and bannock.
Waiter: Would you like to *poutine* that order? (Ed. note - emphasis added)
Hungry ninja (reluctantly, inevitably): Yeah, sure.
Note that the hungry ninja has just placed an order for chops, applesauce, hearty griddle-fried cakes of bread, all smothered in gravy and cheese curds. Dec 18, 2006
inkhorn There's so much material here for me to make a snarky remark, yet I can't think of a single one. Dec 14, 2006
john Fries with cheese curds and gravy. A delicious treat from our neighbors to the north. Unless you live at the north pole, in which case they're your neighbors to the south. Dec 14, 2006