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blin

blin

8.3
A thin round Russian pancake served with sweet or savory fillings
  • noun
  • /blɪn/
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  • For dinner, we made savory blins stuffed with mushrooms and cheese.

Examples

  • The authors of the French survey remarked that despite recent activity in sex research as a result of AIDS, "empirical knowledge of sexual repertoires remains extremely limited" (Messiah, Blin, Fiche, & the ACSF group, 1995, p. 1,358).

    Academic text (2006)

  • At breakfast, I enjoyed a delicious blin filled with fresh strawberries and cream.

  • She topped her blin with caviar and sour cream for a traditional Russian treat.

Synonyms

blintze
vsblin
5 9.1

A thin pancake folded around a filling like cheese then cooked by frying or baking

is not necessarily folded or fried
blintz
vsblin
  • US
3 8.0

A thin pancake folded around a filling like cheese and cooked by frying or baking

is not necessarily folded or fried
blini
vsblin
2 8.4

People often eat thin round Russian pancakes with sour cream or caviar

is more general and does not require buckwheat or yeast
bliny
vsblin
1 9.8

A thin round Russian pancake often served with caviar or sour cream

is broader and applies to thin pancakes with sweet or savory toppings
pikelet
vsblin
  • UK
1 7.2

A small thick round pancake that people eat with butter or jam

is thin and flat rather than small and thick

How Thin

crepe
22 2.5
blin
8.3
pancake
316 1.0

Surface Forms

blin singular
blins plural

Etymology

Blin names a thin, round Russian pancake. It comes from an old Slavic word for a flat cake and you may know it in English as blini, so the word still means this pancake often eaten with sweet or savory toppings.