blintz
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8.0
- noun
- /ˈblɪnts/
- US
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blintz
- During Hanukkah, my family always makes potato and cheese blintzes for our festive meals.
- cheese blintz
Thank you for joining me as we make blintzes for Shabbos.
- Thank you for joining me as we make blintzes for Shabbos.
- Cantor's Deli is a restaurant that serves pastrami and blintzes and latkes and cream and, you know, cheesecake.
Examples
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At the café, they serve traditional fruit blintzes with berry sauce.
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Instinctively, Ahimsa headed for The Crepes of Wrath, intent on a black bean blintz, his ultimate comfort food.
Fiction book (2002) -
I mean, you wanna have a blintz or something.
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And they got this thing called a "blintz."
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Thank you for joining me as we make blintzes for Shabbos.
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Across from him, Malki cuts her blintz and Ruchel chatters about bicycle pumps.
Fiction book (1999) -
Although you really haven't tasted a blintz until you've tasted Petrovich's.
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Cantor's Deli is a restaurant that serves pastrami and blintzes and latkes and cream and, you know, cheesecake.
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For breakfast, I enjoyed a delicious cheese blintz topped with sour cream.
Synonyms
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9.1
A thin pancake folded around a filling like cheese then cooked by frying or baking
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blintz comes from Yiddish and Slavic words like blin and blini, which mean 'pancake'. So a blintz is a thin pancake rolled or folded around a filling like cheese or fruit, which is why the name fits the dish.