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ratatouille

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11 lettersPronunciation /ɹæt.əˈtuː.i/Part of speech nounSorted aaeillorttuStarts with REnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings

Word origin

Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.

Used in a sentence

  • I expected the open-air markets, but defrosted bouillabaisse and canned ratatouille weren’t what I imagined to be staples of Parisian culinary life. Yet they’ve become mainstays.
  • You know that worm in R.F.K. Junior's brain that we all assume has been ratatouilling him around this whole time?

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