Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dish consisting of marinated cubes of lamb or beef grilled or roasted on a spit, often with slices of eggplant, onion, and tomato; shish kebab.
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- noun A form of
skewered dish .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The moles accompanied Henry and Chris to school, where the boys ate their packed lunches and claimed their pets had their own invisible and much more appetizing food, such as shashlik, which was cooked for them in special ovens.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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During Ramadan many Azerbaijanis do not fast, and the cafés in Astara do a bustling lunch business, serving lamb shashlik, or barbecue, to visiting Iranians.
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The moles accompanied Henry and Chris to school, where the boys ate their packed lunches and claimed their pets had their own invisible and much more appetizing food, such as shashlik, which was cooked for them in special ovens.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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During Ramadan many Azerbaijanis do not fast, and the cafés in Astara do a bustling lunch business, serving lamb shashlik, or barbecue, to visiting Iranians.
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To the room on his left there was a virtual banquet; mounds of grilled lamb, shashlik, mussakhan and chicken liver.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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To the room on his left there was a virtual banquet; mounds of grilled lamb, shashlik, mussakhan and chicken liver.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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To the room on his left there was a virtual banquet; mounds of grilled lamb, shashlik, mussakhan and chicken liver.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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To the room on his left there was a virtual banquet; mounds of grilled lamb, shashlik, mussakhan and chicken liver.
Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2 Vince Flynn 2010
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Also I note that about half the restaurants in our guide go something like "amazing shashlik, dumplings, fish, great atmosphere, and oh by the way topless waitresses, just saying."
Just Wow yuki_onna 2009
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First we eat lamb shashlik in tender strips with a dried, hard cow cheese and bread, and savoury doughnuts that we dunk in sour milk.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
rolig commented on the word shashlik
Georgian home cooking (no, the other Georgia!).
A delicious mutton kebab, served in one of my favorite Leningrad restaurants in the 1980s, the Kavkaz ("Caucasus").
August 26, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word shashlik
It sounds SO good - and almost onomatopoetic for "drooling".
August 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word shashlik
This Georgia's been in the news so much that it's the other Georgia that's the other Georgia for me.
August 26, 2008
rolig commented on the word shashlik
I should probably have spelled it shashlyk to reflect the Russian spelling and pronunciation (шашлык), with the typically Russian hard l and the dark, rich unround back vowel y (ы).
A delicious-sounding word, indeed.
August 26, 2008