chicken purloo
- noun
- /ˈtʃɪkɪn pərˈlu/
- US
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purloo de pollo
- Many families in South Carolina enjoy making chicken purloo for Sunday dinner.
Examples
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She learned to cook chicken purloo from her grandmother's old recipe.
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At the festival, they served a hearty chicken purloo full of tender meat and spicy sausage.
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My grandmother makes the best chicken purloo in the family.
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Have you ever tried chicken purloo?
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Many families in South Carolina enjoy making chicken purloo for Sunday dinner.
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At the festival, they served a hearty chicken purloo full of tender meat and spicy sausage.
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She learned to cook chicken purloo from her grandmother's old recipe.
Synonyms
A thick rice and chicken stew from the southern United States
How Thick
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun 'purloo' denotes a specific kind of rice-and-meat stew, and prefacing it with 'chicken' simply specifies the main protein; the overall meaning is directly compositional. Despite being regionally specialized, this type-of construction is predictable and a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Chicken purloo may come from an old rice dish called 'pilau' that later became known as purloo. Imagine a big pot where chicken and rice are mixed with sausage and spices into a thick, hearty 'stew', and that's why chicken purloo means a thick dish of rice and meat today.