Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A piece of dough stuffed with potato, meat, or cheese and baked or fried.
Wiktionary
- n. An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a shell of baked or fried dough
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Russian and Jewish Cookery) A fried, or sometimes baked, turnover made from a round or square sheet of dough containing a filling, usually of meat or potatoes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack
Etymologies
- From the Yiddish קניש (knish), from the Polish knysz and Ukrainian книш (knyš), from Turkic. (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish, from Ukrainian knysh, probably of Turkic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I'm still not big on trick-or-treating, but the knish is a good conversation piece and a way to get people talking about ghosts they'd rather not touch.”
The Huffington Post: Laura Silver: My Big Jewish Halloween Costume
“The potato knish is the obvious choice for novices but the bakery keeps it fresh with seasonal flavors such as pumpkin for Halloween and newfangled choices like jalape ñ o cheddar.”
“If you hate that powdered concrete they call a knish mix, write and tell them so.”
“The important thing is that a knish is a delicious little starchy thing and I try not to indulge in them too often!”
“It seems to me "knish" better suits a lesbian, while gay guys would prefer a "Ka-Bob.”
“At afternoon lunch, I sat in the common room nibbling on my potato knish, listening to Jo and Fanny, feeling as if my insides were made of India rubber and all their words bounced around without touching me.”
“HaveFun is right …. the unique healthful flavor of simple kosher food … the low-fat joys of chicken liver … the low-salt melange of pastrami and corned beef … the low-cholesterol beauty of schmaltz … the low-carb wonder of the knish …”
“You will, of course, keep us updated on the second date knish.”
“With the ticket money squirreled away, the thousands not spent on parking, plus the cash I wouldn't have squandered on $5 waters and $6 pretzels don't get me started on the steep cost of a squished knish, I'd now be in position to become an equity partner in the NY Mets.”
The Huffington Post: Lita Smith-Mines: Buy Me Some Peanuts and a Piece of the Mets
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘knish’.
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Behold, The Potato
All things potato. History, foodways and potato recipe names, cultivar or variety names, farming, production, diseases and pests, folklore.
spud, tater, starchy, tuberous, <i>Solanum tubero..., <i>Phytophthora i..., potato blight, late blight, blight, Ireland, Irish potato, lumper and 331 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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Yiddish
tsuris, verklempt, haimish, bupkis, naches, nudnik, nebbish, bubbe meise, knish, shiksa
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kn- words
knapsack, knickknack, knock, kneel, knight, knap, knish, knell, knell, knoll, knife, know and 9 more...
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Dumpling City
dumpling, jiaozi, potsticker, wonton, baozi, xiao long bao, pork bun, red bean bun, pineapple bun, coconut bun, gyoza, shumai and 33 more...
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yearofglad's words
bildungsroman, icosahedron, defenestration, fantod, sesquipedalian, philopena, sjambok, prandial, palimpsest, logorrhea, eschatology, jodhpur and 47 more...
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Slavic Languages Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gulag, robot, troika, siberian, kishke, sable, polka, sputnik, babushka, gopak, trepak, baba and 40 more...
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Comestibles and Libations
Food and drink words
rumfustian, grout-ale, weizenbock, zymurgy, wort, multum, coq au vin, mead, schooner, lager, malt liquor, bock beer and 47 more...
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Gesundheit!
If you say it juuust so, it sounds like a sneeze.
focaccia, spatula, facetious, hooey, kudzu, syzygy, bivouac, brouhaha, flummox, banshee, bugaboo, chin-up and 68 more...
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combat_wombat's list
German words
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after the demarcation
words that sound good to me
knish, Yiddell, comb, hem, Ollivander, degage, paraprosdokian, asportation, facile, gamine
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combat_wombat's list
German words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for knish.
bilby Pun-filled delicacy over at Mexiknish. Jul 14, 2012
reesetee Done. Excellent suggestion. Tasty, too. :-) May 1, 2008
chained_bear Reesetee, according to Prolagus's note on clannish, you really should add this to your "Gesundheit!" list. ;) May 1, 2008