[Ads-l] burgoo

[Stephen Goranson]

Yesterday, the Spelling Bee word I lacked was burgoo. OED had two n. senses.
1. A thick oatmeal gruel or porridge used chiefly by seamen; loblolly.
2. A soup or stew made with a variety of meat and vegetables, used
especially at outdoor feasts. North American.

Sense 2 was added; with dates from 1743. Sense 1 apparently less revised,
with dates from 1750, even though it is probably the original. or at least,
I guess, the earlier sense of the two. Here's a long discussion of
mariner burgoo from 1696:

An Account of the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Cure of the Distempers that
... - Google Books
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(The link is Edge style, which I don't like; we'll see if it works.)

An Account of the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Cure of the ...
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William COCKBURN (M.D.)
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1696
Found inside – Page 24
... Burgoo . Burgoo ) which of it self is very fit to correct that
thickness of the humours and costiveness , that are the unavoid- able
consequences of the abovemen- tion'd diet join'd with the least idle- ness
: for Oats being of a thin ...
Stephen

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