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chutney|ˈtʃʌtnɪ|
Also chutny, chutnee.
[Hindī chatni.]
A strong hot relish or condiment compounded of ripe fruits, acids, or sour herbs, and flavoured with chillies, spices, etc.
1813Forbes Orient. Mem. II. 50 (Y.) The Chatna is sometimes made with cocoa-nut, lime-juice, garlic, and chilies. 1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master viii, She soon return'd with..Rice, chitny, Bombay ducks, and tea. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lix, Chests of mangoes, chutney, and currie-powders. 1870Eng. Mech. 4 Feb. 512/2 Chutnee.
▸ Music. A type of popular music, originating in Trinidad, that fuses various types of traditional Indian folk music with Caribbean rhythms, such as calypso and soca. Also chutney-soca.
Chutney is typically performed on acoustic instruments such as the harmonium, dholak, and dantal, with lyrics sung in Hindi and English.
1989Chicago Tribune 26 Oct. i. a36/2 Indian music is as commonplace as soca and calypso. In fact, the soca beat has been added to traditional Hindu music to create a new pop form called ‘chutney’. 1995P. Manuel in P. Manuel et al. Caribbean Currents ix. 216 Since the late 1980s, chutney has become something of a craze in Trinidad as Indians have taken it out of the closet and into big public dances, held every weekend at open-air clubs throughout the island. 1998N.Y. Times 6 Feb. b26/5 At the turntables, she mixes bhangra, hip-hop, reggae and sometimes chutney soca, music from Trinidad where the descendants of Indian laborers mix Indian-style melodies with a fast calypso beat. 2004Time Out N.Y. 30 Dec. 102/1 DJ Suraj returns to Curry Club for a special night of soca, chutney, reggae, Bollywood, bhangra, house and hip-hop. |