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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bouilli (“boiled”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bouilli (countable and uncountable, plural bouillis)
- Meat stewed with juice.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342:Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would remind me that the ubiquitous digger had been there first.
See also
French
Pronunciation
Participle
bouilli (feminine bouillie, masculine plural bouillis, feminine plural bouillies)
- past participle of bouillir
Further reading
Louisiana Creole
Etymology
From French bouillir (“to boil”), compare Haitian Creole bouyi.
Verb
bouilli
- to beg
References
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Norman
Adjective
bouilli m
- (Guernsey) boiled