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How to pronounce knish in English?

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Type of turnover

Examples of knish

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If people are near enough to sell you a knish, they are near enough to rob you.
From the economix.blogs.nytimes.com
Between bites, TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with the knish connoisseur.
From the time.com
Knish says an officer parked his car in the middle of the road and went to investigate.
From the chron.com
Nothing warms you up as the weather starts getting cool like a fresh potato or kasha knish.
From the travel.nytimes.com
It must be borscht, knish and zakuski followed by kisel and lymonnyk.
From the economist.com
A knish consists of a filling covered with dough that is either baked, grilled, or deep fried.
From the en.wikipedia.org
So glad to see the Schmee Bros back in bizness, since their Lower East Side knish joint went under.
From the latimes.com
We pigged out on Kobe meatballs, Reuben-stuffed knish sliders, and a truly decadent lamb shank quesadilla.
From the toledoblade.com
After we checked out the tree and I introduced Maddie to a knish, I sent them on to their shopping excursion.
From the timesunion.com
More examples
  • (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack
  • A knish (with a "k") is a Eastern European, and Yiddish snack food made popular in North America by Jewish immigrants, eaten widely by Jewish and non-Jewish peoples alike.
  • An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a shell of baked or fried dough
  • Potato or Kashe stuffed into greasy dough, goes down, if ever, like lead. Often used to describe a delectable or sometimes dumb person.
  • An Eastern European Jewish savory pastry filled with meat, potato, or kasha (buckwheat).
  • A Jewish pastry made from a piece of dough closed around a mashed potato, cheese and or meat filling.
  • A Jewish potato pancake that is deep-fried or baked. Sometimes meat (primarily beef) or other ingredients are encased in its outer dough.
  • Pastry usually with a savory filling often served as an appetizer; Jewish origin
  • Stuffed potato and flour dumpling.