Chop Suey Definition

so͝oē
noun
A Chinese American dish consisting of meat, bean sprouts, celery, mushrooms, etc. cooked together in a sauce and served with rice.
Webster's New World
A miscellany.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Chop Suey

Noun

Singular:
chop suey
Plural:
chop sueys

Origin of Chop Suey

  • Cantonese zaap6 seoi3 miscellaneous bits (equivalent to Mandarin zásuì) Cantonese zaap6 mixed (from Middle Chinese tsfiap) Cantonese seoi3 mixed (from Middle Chinese suaj` pieces, to break up)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Cantonese 雜碎 (zaap6 seoi3, “mixed and broken”).

    From Wiktionary

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