E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Ked’jeree’.
A stew of rice, vegetables, eggs, butter, etc. A corruption of the Indian word Khichri (a medley or hotch-potch). The word has been confounded with a place so called, forty miles south-west of Calcutta, on the Hooghly river.
