Definitions for burgoo

burgoo bur·goo

Spelling: [bur-goo, bur-goo]
IPA: /ˈbɜr gu, bɜrˈgu/

Burgoo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in burgoo (bgooru).

Definitions for burgoo

noun

  1. a thick oatmeal gruel, especially as eaten by sailors.
  2. Chiefly Kentucky and Tennessee. a thick, highly seasoned soup or stew, usually made of chicken or small game and corn, tomatoes, and onions. a picnic or other gathering at which burgoo is served.

Origin of burgoo

1735-45; perhaps ultimately Arabic burghul, burghūl cracked wheat (see bulgur), though immediate source is uncertain

Examples for burgoo

All Kentuckians will vow they understand the true meaning of the word "burgoo."

In retrospect I smell the burgoo a-cooking, and sympathetically my mouth waters.

“You shall have your breakfast soon,” continued his master, eating the burgoo between his addresses to the animal.

When the burgoo is done dip it out and drink it from tin cups.

He gave the men pea-soup and rice instead of burgoo and the wretched oatmeal mess which was the staple thing for breakfast.

Major LeCroix gave a burgoo at his locust grove on the river, to which all the candidates were invited.

The burgoo and the barbecue belong to that era when food was plenty, feasts were generous and appetites good.

burgoo is made precisely in the same manner as mush, but with oatmeal instead of Indian.

"You shall have your breakfast soon," continued his master, eating the burgoo between his addresses to the animal.

Then came a merry clattering of tin cups as "Turkle" came by with buckets of burgoo, dipping it out with a long ladle.

Word Value for burgoo
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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