knish
/knɪʃ
/noun
A dumpling of flaky dough with a savoury filling that is baked or fried.Why do you think politicians go around munching on pizzas, knishes and egg rolls on the campaign trail?...
- This means that of an evening I can choose to eat Cuban-Chinese nosh, a Polish dumpling or a Jewish knish.
- We unload more dishes, set the table for yet another feast: salmon, sable fish, bagels, antipasto, knishes, chopped liver… well, you get the picture.
Origin
Yiddish, from Russian knish, knysh, denoting a kind of bun or dumpling.
Rhymes
- in view
- in view of
- invigilate
- invigilation
- invigilator
- invigorate
- invigorating
- invigoratingly
- invigoration
- invigorative
- invigorator
- invincibility
- invincible
- invincibleness
- invincibly
- in vino veritas
- inviolability
- inviolable
- inviolably
- inviolacy
- inviolate
- inviolately
- inviolateness
- inviscid
- invisibility