Definitions for couscous

couscous cous·cous

Spelling: [koos-koos]
IPA: /ˈkus kus/

Couscous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in couscous (ccoossuu).

Definitions for couscous

noun

  1. a North African dish consisting of steamed semolina, served with vegetables and meat.

Origin of couscous

1590-1600; French Arabic kuskus, kuskusū Berber seksu

Examples for couscous

When he had placed it on the ground, they served a couscous with this ox.

The Kabyles live well at all events, and their couscous is renowned throughout all Algeria.

The Arab eats his couscous out of a great wooden platter, and disdains knife or fork or spoon.

Here were great copper cauldrons where the couscous was being prepared.

One day they brought to one of them a dish of couscous with meat.

couscous, kus′kus, n. an African dish of granulated flour steamed over broth.

A couple of years back, Jean-Yves Hepp was driving down the Champs-Élysées and dreaming of couscous.

Word Value for couscous
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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