mulligatawny
(ˌmʌlɪgəˈtɔːnɪ)
Forms: 8 mullaghee-tanny, mulagatoney, 9 mulkatany, mullikatauny, malaca-tawney, malachatauni, malagatany, mulla-, mulligatawn(e)y.
[a. Tamil milagu-tannīr ‘pepper-water’ (Yule).]
1. An East Indian highly seasoned soup. Also mulligatawny soup.
| 1784 in Seton-Karr Select. Calcutta Gaz. (1864) I. 18 On Mullaghee-tanny we dine. 1798 Sporting Mag. XI. 308, I supped..in his house on Mulagatoney or pepper-water. 1829 Southey Sir T. More (1831) II. 286 Curry and malagatany soup from the East Indies. 1863 Sala Qualk 61 He..devoured prodigious quantities of curry, pepperpot, chillum, cutlets, capsicum-hash, and mulligatawny soup. |
b. mulligatawny paste (see quot. 1858).
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Mulligatawny-paste, a curry paste, used for flavouring mulligatawny-soup. 1865 Livingstone Zambesi vi. 130 We had taken a little mulligatawney paste for making soup. |
2. Anglo-Ind. = mull n.8
| 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master vi. 147 [He] grew, in fact, a mulkatany. |