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suey

suey

3 9.9
A playful name for a dish made with pork or for the meat itself
  • noun
  • /ˈsuːi/
  • Informal
translation icon : suey
  • The special at the diner today features chop suey, a tasty dish made with pork and vegetables.
  • chop suey
  • eat chop suey

Examples

  • Oh, and some chop suey, too.

    Lady and the Tramp (1955)

  • What do you want Mum, chop suey or chicken?

    Steaming (1985)

  • Let's get some chop suey.

    Heroes for Sale (1933)

  • I still think we should've ordered some chop suey.

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

  • He's through work also, and we go around to the China Bowl, off of Times Square, for some chop suey and a beer.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • He should've ordered chop suey, too.

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

  • Like, how about chop suey or chow mein?

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Chop suey?

    Lady and the Tramp (1955)

  • I enjoyed a delicious bowl of chop suey that included tender pieces of pork and fresh vegetables.

  • After a long day, we decided to order chop suey from our favorite Chinese restaurant.

Compounds

chop suey
3 3.4

A Chinese-style dish of meat or fish and vegetables stir-fried and served with rice

chop-suey greens
  • Philippine
6.3

A leafy green vegetable used in Asian cooking like bok choy

Surface Forms

suey singular
sueys plural

Etymology

Suey for a pork dish grew from the pig-call sooey, because people began using the friendly farm word for the meat of the animals they called. So Suey can mean pork or a pork dish in a playful, informal way.