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Burgoo   Listen
noun
Burgoo  n.  (Written also burgout)  A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Burgoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... badness of the food was the worst evil to a boy accustomed to plain but good country fare. The burgoo or oatmeal gruel served at breakfast made him sick; he knew how it had been made in the cook's dirty pans. The "Irish horse" and salt pork for dinner soon became distasteful; it was not in the best condition when brought aboard, and before long it became putrid. ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang

... said Long Jack, "to have a frind at coort, though. I'm o' Manuel's way o' thinkin'. About tin years back I was crew to a Sou' Boston market-boat. We was off Minot's Ledge wid a northeaster, butt first, atop of us, thicker'n burgoo. The ould man was dhrunk, his chin waggin' on the tiller, an' I sez to myself, 'If iver I stick my boat-huk into T-wharf again, I'll show the saints fwhat manner o' craft they saved me out av.' Now, I'm here, as ye can well see, an' the model of ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

... one of the boys of the ship, dressed as a baby, with long clothes and a cap: he held in his hand a marlinspike, which was suspended round his neck with a rope yarn: this was to assist him in cutting his teeth, as the children on shore use a coral. His nurse attended him with a bucket full of burgoo, or hasty pudding, with which she occasionally fed him out of the cook's iron ladle. Two or three stout men were habited as sea nymphs, to attend on the goddess: they carried a looking-glass, some curry-combs, a birch-broom, and a pot of red ...
— Frank Mildmay • Captain Frederick Marryat



Words linked to "Burgoo" :   Irish burgoo, Spanish burgoo, porridge, cookout



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