Editing Poutine (section)

===Etymology===
The ''[[Dictionnaire historique du français québécois]]'' lists 15 meanings of {{lang|fr|poutine}} in [[Quebec French|Québécois]] and [[Acadian French]], most of which are for kinds of food; the word ''poutine'' in the meaning "fries with cheese and gravy" is dated to 1982 in English.<ref name="merrweb"/> Other senses of the word have been in use since at least 1810.<ref name=dicthistq>{{cite book |last1=Poirier |first1=Claude |last2= Canac-Marquis |first2=Steve |title=Dictionnaire historique du français québécois |publisher=[[Université Laval]] |year=1998 |isbn=978-2-7637-7557-9}}</ref>

According to [[Merriam-Webster]], a popular etymology is that ''poutine'' is from a Québécois slang word meaning "mess", and that others attribute it to the English word ''[[pudding]]''. The exact provenance of the word ''poutine'' is uncertain.<ref name="merrweb"/>

The ''Dictionnaire historique'' mentions the possibility that the form ''poutine'' is simply a [[Francization|gallicization]] of the word ''pudding''. However, it considers it more likely that it was inherited from regional languages spoken in France, and that some of its meanings resulted from the later influence of the similar-sounding English word ''pudding''. It cites the [[Provençal dialect|Provençal]] forms {{lang|fr|poutingo}} "bad stew" and {{lang|fr|poutité}} "hodgepodge" or "crushed fruit or foods"; {{lang|fr|poutringo}} "mixture of various things" in [[Languedocien dialect|Languedocien]]; and {{lang|fr|poutringue}} or {{lang|fr|potringa}} "bad stew" in [[Franche-Comté]] as possibly related to ''poutine''. The meaning "fries with cheese and gravy" of ''poutine'' is among those held as probably unrelated to ''pudding'', provided the latter view is correct.<ref name=dicthistq/>