Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of confection or cake, supposed to be made of the pulp of fruits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A kind of
delicate confectionery orcake , perhaps made from thepulp offruit .
Etymologies
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French poulpeton, poupeton, a sort of ragout.
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Examples
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A variant of pulpatoon, a rabbit or fowl stew like a pot pie.
chained_bear commented on the word pulpatoon
A dish made of rabbits, fowls, etc., in a crust of forced meat.
Forced meat? Eeeeyew...
February 2, 2007
oroboros commented on the word pulpatoon
Dictionary.com says: \Pul`pa*toon"\, n. F. poulpeton, poupeton, a sort of ragout. A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit. (Obs.) --Nares.
February 2, 2007
sionnach commented on the word pulpatoon
One might be forgiven for thinking 'octopus pie'. But "forced meat"? EEeeyew... indeed.
November 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pulpatoon
*imagines a sausage, blindfolded, walking a plank*
November 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word pulpatoon
Note to Wordieternity... More comments on this word can be found at -oons (of more than one syllable).
November 28, 2007
bilby commented on the word pulpatoon
I'm thinking of that much under-rated genre of comic strips about the wacky goings on in paper mills.
November 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word pulpatoon
Hmm, I had in mind a particular breed of tacky fiction, brought to glorious animated direct-to-DVD life.
November 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word pulpatoon
And then there's the utterly clownish minister who can't help making jokes during his sermons.
November 28, 2007
bilby commented on the word pulpatoon
A tomato canning factory in Newcastle.
November 28, 2007
avivamagnolia commented on the word pulpatoon
A kind of delicate confectionery or cake, perhaps made from the pulp of fruit.
January 17, 2009