"gooducken" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: gooduckens [plural]
Etymology: Blend of goose + duck + chicken. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|goose|duck|chicken}} Blend of goose + duck + chicken Head templates: {{en-noun}} gooducken (plural gooduckens)
  1. A dish composed of a goose stuffed with duck which, in turn, has been stuffed with chicken.
    Sense id: en-gooducken-en-noun-kOEC58IV Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2017, Taran Matharu, Summoner: The Battlemage, Hooder Children’s Books",
          "text": "Even with these enormous dishes, yet more meat lined the tables; skillets of hare with tangerine jelly, fritters of river pike, poached sturgeon with a garnish of its own caviar and even a gooducken, the extravagant portmanteau of a chicken stuffed within a duck, stuffed within a goose.",
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          "ref": "2021, Henry Scowcroft, Cross Everything: A Personal Journey into the Evolution of Cancer, Green Tree, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 59",
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