osturducken

English

WOTD – 23 November 2023

Etymology

Blend of os(trich) +‎ turducken.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɒstɜːˈdʌk(ə)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɔstɜɹˈdʌk(ə)n/, /ˌɑs-/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -ʌkən
• Hyphenation: os‧tur‧duck‧en

Noun

osturducken (plural osturduckens)

1. (cooking) An ostrich stuffed with a turducken; that is, a boned chicken stuffed with some sort of breadcrumb or sausage stuffing, inside a boned duck, inside a boned turkey, inside a boned ostrich.
   • 1999 December 1, Andrew L. Tepper, “Turducken”, in pgh.food‎^[1] (Usenet):

     No, but when I got interested in Turducken, I came across a recipe for an Osturducken. Take an ostrich, stuff it with a turducken.

   • 2001 November 20, Hane, quoting Jan, “Turk-Duck-Hen”, in houston.eats‎^[2] (Usenet):

     Our traditional South African version is the Osturducken, an ostrich stuffed with turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken.

   • 2001 November 21, Towse, “Terducken redux …”, in misc.writing‎^[3] (Usenet):

     And there's always the osturducken, which is a turducken tucked into an ostrich.

   • 2007 November, Lisa Anne Marie Baster, “Dear Dickheads [letter]”, in Angela H. Brown, editor, SLUG Magazine, volume 18, number 227, Salt Lake City, Utah: Eighteen Percent Gray, →OCLC, page 6:

     This year I decided that I wanted to share with all the SLUG readers one of my absolute favorite Thanksgiving recipes: the mighty osturducken! The osturducken is a sister dinner to the more traditional turducken, but it's ten thousand times more delicious. To create an osturducken you will need a de-boned ostrich, stuffed with a de-boned turkey, stuffed with a de-boned duck, stuffed with a de-boned chicken that is stuffed with your favorite stuffing. […] Place the osturducken in the oven at 225° and bake for 8 hours or until the meat thermometer reaches 165°.

Translations

ostrich stuffed with a turducken

• Finnish: kanalla täytetyllä ankalla täytetyllä kalkkunalla täytetty strutsi
• Macedonian: остурда́кен m (osturdáken)