Burgoos [noun]

We was off Minot's Ledge wid a northeaster, butt first, atop of us, thicker'n burgoo.

Weve brought lots of lunch, and Im sure there is enough of Percys burgoo, or whatever it is, to feed a regiment.

The burgoo or oatmeal gruel served at breakfast made him sick; he knew how it had been made in the cook's dirty pans.

All Kentuckians will vow they understand the true meaning of the word "burgoo."

When the burgoo is done dip it out and drink it from tin cups.

In one hand he held a pint flask and in the other a tin cup, which lately must have contained burgoo.

In retrospect I smell the burgoo a-cooking, and sympathetically my mouth waters.

He gave the men pea-soup and rice instead of burgoo and the wretched oatmeal mess which was the staple thing for breakfast.

Then came a merry clattering of tin cups as "Turkle" came by with buckets of burgoo, dipping it out with a long ladle.

Major LeCroix gave a burgoo at his locust grove on the river, to which all the candidates were invited.