miltzn.
/mɪlts/, U.S. /mɪlts/ Jewish Cookery.
The spleen of an animal. Cf. milt n.
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1909 Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 3/5 No more cooking of chleb borsch schave and stuffed miltz. I shall have a cook of my own.
1951 L. W. Leonard Jewish Cookery (new ed.) xiv. 189 The butcher will be glad to make the incision in the side of a beef miltz as large as you desire.
1966 Bloom's Jewish Restaurant Menu Entree..Stuffed Miltz.
1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 227 Popular Jewish dishes include..miltz (calf or beef spleen, often stuffed).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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