mulligatawny
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Tamil மிளகுத்தண்ணீர் (miḷakuttaṇṇīr, literally “pepper water”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mulligatawny (countable and uncountable, plural mulligatawnies)
- An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning.
- 1831, L E L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 127:
- At the top was a cod's shoulders and head, whose intellectual faculties were rather over much developed; and at the bottom was soup called mulligatawny—some indefinite mixture of curry-powder and ducks' feet, the first spoonful of which called from its master a look of thunder and lightning up the table.
- 1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
- Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.