# poutine
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* a variant of French pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or
* from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified.
The Canadian French word is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /puːˈtiːn/
* (General American) IPA: /puˈtin/
* (Canada) IPA: /puːˈtiːn/, /puːˈtɪn/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːn, -ɪn
* Hyphenation: pou‧tine

### Noun

poutine (countable and uncountable, plural poutines) (Canada)
* A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
    Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.
* Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
    In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.

#### Derived terms

* breakfast poutine
* Italian poutine
* pizza poutine
* poutine pizza
* poutinery

#### Related terms

* poutinerie

#### See also

* disco fries

### References

* 1 2 “poutine, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “poutine, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* poutine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Category:poutine on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

## French
### Etymology

Attested from 1810. Etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* a variant of pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or
* from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified.
Sense 1 is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.
* Michif poutchine (possibly)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pu.tin/
* (Quebec) IPA: [pu.t͡sɪn]
* Audio (Quebec, Lac-Saint-Jean); “une poutine”:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pou‧tine

### Noun

poutine f (plural poutines)
* (Quebec) poutine
* (Acadia) any of several potato-based dishes
* (Louisiana) dumpling
* (Louisiana) bread pudding, pudding
* (Quebec, obsolete) any of several pudding-like desserts
* (Quebec, obsolete) a messy situation or complicated thing; a quagmire
* (Quebec, obsolete) a fat woman

#### Coordinate terms

* galvaude

#### Derived terms

* pizza poutine
* poutine à trou
* poutine déjeuner
* poutine italienne
* poutine pizza
* poutine rapée
* poutinerie

### References

* 1 2 Compare “poutine, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “poutine, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* poutine (plat) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$
* Category:poutine on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
* “poutine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

### Anagrams

* pointue, utopien