English Explanatory Dictionary

stone soup

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A traditional Portuguese thick soup typically made with pork and vegetables.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-stone soup.wav

Word forms

stone soup

Etymology

Calque of Portuguese sopa de pedra, after a tale in which a traveller places a stone in a cooking-pot and tricks the locals into contributing ingredients; see “Stone Soup”.

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