chicken soup

English

Chicken soup

Pronunciation

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Noun

chicken soup (countable and uncountable, plural chicken soups)

1. Any soup made with either pieces of chicken or chicken broth as its main ingredient, often thought to cure everyday illnesses such as the common cold.

   He should have guessed that her great-great-grandmother's secret chicken soup recipe was a can from the store.

2. (figuratively) A cure for a wide variety of illnesses or other problems.

   Synonym: chicken noodle soup

   Duct tape is the chicken soup of plumbing.

3. (figuratively) A mixed-up mush.

   His hand got caught in a meat grinder and turned into chicken soup.

4. (biochemistry, slang, historical) The aqueous solution of nutrients used in the Viking lander biological experiments to detect microbial Martian life.

Translations

soup with chicken as main ingredient

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞湯／鸡汤 (zh) (jītāng)

• Danish: hønsekødssuppe
• Dutch: kippensoep (nl)
• Faroese: høsnakjøtssuppa f, høsnasuppa f
• Finnish: kanakeitto
• French: soupe de poulet f
• Georgian: ჩიხირთმა (čixirtma)
• German: Hühnersuppe (de) f
• Greek: κοτόσουπα (el) f (kotósoupa)
• Hungarian: csirkehúsleves
• Irish: sú circe m
• Italian: brodo (it) m
• Japanese: チキンスープ (chikinsūpu)
• Manx: anvroie eean m
• Polish: rosół (pl) m
• Portuguese: canja (pt) f
• Russian: кури́ный суп m (kurínyj sup)
• Slovak: slepačia polievka f
• Spanish: sopa de pollo f, caldo de pollo m
• Swedish: kycklingsoppa (sv) c
• Thai: ซุปไก่
• Yiddish: גאָלדענע יויך f (goldene yoykh)