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Definition: Couscous |
CouscousNoun1. A spicy dish that originated in North Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew. 2. A North Africa pasta made of crushed and steamed semolina. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "couscous" was first used: 1600. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Cracked wheat steamed and eaten as a cereal or with meat etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Couscous is a small-grained pasta (made of millet or semolina, grain diameter is 1-2 mm) popular in North Africa and the Middle East. When cooked it has a texture somewhere between American grits and Italian risotto. "Couscous" can also refer to the overall dish made with the pasta served under a meat and vegetable stew. The dish is a staple throughout the Mediterranean and is served as foreign cuisine in many other countries.
Couscous is generally made by pouring the couscous grains into boiling water, adding some vegetable oil and stirring. After swelling for a few minutes, the couscous is ready for consumption. This can only be done with precooked couscous that is easily bought in the west, if one tries to boil it raw the grains will clump toghether.
The traditional North African method is to use a couscoussiere. The base is a tall metal pot shaped rather like an oil jar. In it meat and vegetables are cooked in a stew. On top of the base a steamer sits where the couscous is steamed. The lid to the steamer has holes around its edge so that steam can escape.
There are also recipes from Brazil that use boiled couscous molded into timbale with other ingredients.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Couscous."
Crosswords: Couscous |
| English words defined with "couscous": Couscousou ♦ Lalo. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "couscous": Cuscus. (references) |
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| "Couscous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "Couscous" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 93.33% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "couscous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | '丸子. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | couscous. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | koeskoes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | couscous. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Couscous. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κους-κους, αραβικό σιμιγδάλι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cuscus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouscouscay cuscuz. (various references) cuscús. (various references) cere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Arabic | 500-Modern | kaskasa. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "couscous": couscouses. (additional references) | |
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"Couscous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aoussou, conscous, cou-cou, coucous, cousccous, couscos, cous-cous, Soussou, Youssou. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-o-o-s-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cuscus. | |
-3 letters: cocos, cusso. | |
-4 letters: coco, coos, coss, cuss, sous. | |
-5 letters: coo, cos, sos, sou. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-o-o-s-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: couscouses. | |
+3 letters: conspicuous, unconscious. | |
+4 letters: subconscious. | |
+5 letters: conspicuously, inconspicuous, subcoriaceous, unconsciouses, unconsciously. | |
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