English Explanatory Dictionary

summer soup

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A soup suitable for serving chilled instead of hot as most soups are.
  2. A traditional Finnish soup of vegetables cooked in milk.

Pronunciation

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

Word forms

summer soup summer soups

Etymology

So named for being suitable to serve cold in the heat of summer. In the Finnish sense, Calque of Finnish kesäkeitto.

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