Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun New England Any of several thick stews, originally an oatmeal porridge.
- noun A spicy stew made of poultry, game, other meats, and vegetables, usually cooked outdoors.
- noun A picnic featuring such a stew.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seamen's term for a dish made of boiled oatmeal seasoned with salt, butter, and sugar; gruel.
- noun A kind of soup made with many different kinds of meat and vegetables, highly peppered and served very hot: popular in Kentucky and other places, especially at barbecues, picnics, and other outdoor feasts.
- noun A barbecue, picnic, or woodland feast at which the soup burgoo is served.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical a
seafaring dish from thedays ofsail ; a sort ofporridge seasoned withsugar ,salt andbutter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gathering at which burgoo stew is served
- noun porridge made of rolled oats
- noun thick spicy stew of whatever meat and whatever vegetables are available; southern United States
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The burgoo was a mixture of oatmeal and scraps of beef fat that had simmered all night on the galley stove.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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As soon as this meeting was over, I took the midnight train for Dayton, where a "burgoo" feast was to be held the next day on the fair grounds.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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I wondered if Jack was still "cleaning up" at pontoon, if Fred was getting his parcels again, and if Charley was still making those famous "burgoo" puddings.
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His most recent venture, a collaboration with the National Archives called America Eats Tavern, is a place where historic dishes like Kentucky burgoo and mock turtle soup serve as a love letter to his adopted country.
José Andrés Wants to Feed the World (And You) Matt Goulding 2011
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Stews such as Brunswick stew and its spicier Kentucky cousin, burgoo, were a nineteenth-century hodgepodge of whatever was at hand, including small game such as squirrel and rabbit, beans, and shoe-peg corn.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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“It reminds me of the burgoo we had in Louisville,” Graham said.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010
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“It reminds me of the burgoo we had in Louisville,” Graham said.
BLASTIN’ THE BLUES LOREN LONG 2010
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Chowder still means New England, Kentucky is burgoo, and the low country is Frogmore stew.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Looking for a weekend full of more "cultured" events than eating burgoo and frolicing through Canberra's flowers?
chained_bear commented on the word burgoo
"...the steward gave them each a hot bowl of burgoo, a kind of liquid porridge."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World,
February 23, 2008
madmouth commented on the word burgoo
also spoon-meat; loblolly
July 7, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word burgoo
"But shake out a palmful of flaked almonds and you'll see they closely resemble fingernails that have come away from a hand which has just seen the light of day.
Black jam and blanched fingernails, slowly sinking into the oozing burgoo!"
Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett, pp 5-6
April 17, 2017