turtlesoup

plural turtlesoups

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of turtle soup

   Some children, to be sure, are born with the stomachs of aldermen, and will digest turtlesoup, or, perhaps, even an old slipper.

   1855, Gooch, Robert, Practical midwifery, including the diseases of women and infants; being a course of lectures delivered at St. Bartholomew's hospital, Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, page 307

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   After an absence of two or three hours he returned well supplied with coffee and sugar, and with his inward man well replenished with turtlesoup and Jamaica rum.

   1875, Clarke, James, Memorials of the Clarke family : formerly of the County of Northampton, in Great Britain their imigration to Shelby County, Ind., Indianapolis: Indianapolis Print., page 31

   M'Poor, M Vanderburgh and I dined together. The meal was good and consisted of buffalo, bear, deer and pork, a turkey¹ two ducks, pike and turtlesoup, besides various vegetables

   1888, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, volume 12, number 2, pages 166-167