knish (k -n sh )n. A piece of dough stuffed with potato, meat, or cheese and baked or fried. [Yiddish, from Ukrainian knysh, probably of Turkic origin.] |
knish [knɪʃ]
n
(Cookery) a piece of dough stuffed with potato, meat, or some other filling and baked or fried
[Yiddish, from Russian knysh cake; compare Polish knysz]
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| Noun | 1. | knish - (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack Yiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script turnover - a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling |
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