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poutine

/puːˈtiːn/ UK
/pʉwˈtɪjn/ UK
/puˈtin/ US
/puˈtin/ Canada
/puˈtɪn/ Canada
/pʉːˈtiːn/ Australia, New Zealand
/pʉˈtin/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -iːn, -ɪn

Where it comes from

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.

noun poutines

Canada, countable, uncountable 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.
Canada, countable, uncountable 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.

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noun dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy; any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish

Español	poutine
한국어	푸틴 putin
日本語	プーティン pūtin, プーチン pūchin
中文	盖浇薯條 gàijiāoshǔtiáo
हिन्दी	पूटीन pūṭīn
Português	poutine
Français	poutine
Deutsch	Poutine
Italiano	poutine
Ελληνικά	πουτίν poutín
Română	poutine
Русский	пути́н putín
Tiếng Việt	poutine
العربية	بوتين
עברית	פוטין

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@misc{poutine_2026,
  title = {poutine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poutine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}