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🌭 A stuffed sausage 🦠 The intestine
kishka

kishka

9.3
A traditional Eastern European sausage filled with flour, meat, or vegetables
  • noun
  • /ˈkɪʃkə/
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  • During the holiday dinner, my grandmother served delicious kishka alongside brisket and latkes.

Examples

  • Number 42, we got your kishka, knish, kasha-varnishka and kreplach combo right here.

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

  • Russia has given us kasha, which can be used as filling for the knish, one of the Jews' "K-rations"; i.e., kreplach, kishka, kasha.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Normalcy meant the smell of kishka or kielbasa reaching from kitchen to hall and all through the house.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • At the deli, I ordered a plate of kishka, which was filled with savory grains and spices.

  • In traditional Jewish cuisine, kishka is often prepared with a rich stuffing of meat and vegetables, making it a flavorful dish.

Synonyms

kielbasa
vskishka
11 4.8

A Polish sausage made from pork, often smoked and grilled or cooked in dishes

is a stuffed casing dish using grain or vegetable fillings rather than mainly pork
kishke
vskishka
1 9.9

A traditional Jewish food like a sausage made from roasted animal intestine filled with seasoned matzo meal

is broader, allowing many types of fillings not only matzo meal and suet

Surface Forms

kishka singular
kishkas plural

Etymology

The word kishka comes from Yiddish and other Eastern European words meaning 'intestine'. Because the dish was made by stuffing an intestine with grain, meat, or vegetables, it is like a sausage, and that's why kishka now means that stuffed food.