mock turtle meaning (slang): definition, quotations

mock turtle

nounalso spelled mock-turtle

Figuratively, Slang, Uncommon An imitation or substitute for something else, especially when such an imitation is seen as less authentic.

Synonym of mock turtle soup.

noun

mock turtle soup

This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341:
O, this is he that disembodied matter, And prov’d that incorporeal corporations Put nothing in no platter, And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians”, in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386:

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Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.1877, A. G. Payne, Common-Sense Papers on Cookery, page 217: