chop suey

or chop sooy

[ chop-soo-ee ]

noun
  1. a Chinese-style American dish consisting of small pieces of meat, chicken, etc., cooked together with bean sprouts, onions, mushrooms, or other vegetables and seasoning, in a gravy, often served with rice and soy sauce.

Origin of chop suey

1
1885–90, Americanism;<dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) jaahp seui mixed bits, akin to Chinese zá suì

Words Nearby chop suey

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How to use chop suey in a sentence

  • To many the elevated railroad was the Rialto, on the stations of which uniformed men sat and made chop suey of your tickets.

    The Four Million | O. Henry
  • Cork put the wad of money carefully into his pocket, and said: "Come on, Fanny; let's have some chop suey before we go home."

British Dictionary definitions for chop suey

chop suey

/ (ˈsuːɪ) /


noun
  1. a Chinese-style dish originating in the US, consisting of meat or chicken, bean sprouts, etc, stewed and served with rice

Origin of chop suey

1
C19: from Chinese (Cantonese) tsap sui odds and ends

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