KNISH

knish

(noun) (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

knish (plural knishes)

An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a shell of baked or fried dough

Anagrams

• Hinks, hinks, shink

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’


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