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noun
A traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To control someone as though they were a puppet.
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noun
a vegetable stew; usually made with tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, onion, and seasonings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stew
History
Unadapted borrowing from French ratatouille, from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish originally from Nice, and is also found in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“grind, mix”), from tudes (“hammer”), from Proto-Indo-European *tud-, from *(s)tewd-.
Across languages
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