bouilli

B3O1U1I1L1L1I1
/buːˈjiː/

noun

Meat stewed with juice.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

nounbouilli (countable and uncountable, plural bouillis)

plural bouillis

  1. countableuncountableMeat stewed with juice.
    1 more example

    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.

    1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342

Origin

  1. Frenchbouilli
  2. Frenchbouilli
  3. Englishbouilli

Borrowed from French bouilli (“boiled”).

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APA

bouilli. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouilli

MLA

“bouilli.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouilli. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bouilli,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouilli.

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