kishka
9.9
The long tube inside the body that carries food after the stomach
- noun
- /ˈkɪʃkə/
- Informal
:
intestino
- And by microbiome, just for people who don't know, you're talking about literally like the environment of your insides of your kishkas, as we call them.
And by microbiome, just for people who don't know, you're talking about literally like the environment of your insides of your kishkas, as we call them.
- And by microbiome, just for people who don't know, you're talking about literally like the environment of your insides of your kishkas, as we call them.
Examples
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While discussing health, my grandmother often joked about how her kishka could tell her when to stop eating.
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In some cultures, people still enjoy dishes made from kishka, which include savory fillings wrapped in the intestine.
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The chef prepared a special soup that featured kishka for an authentic Eastern European experience.
Synonyms
gut
vskishka
275
3.3
The long tube in the body that digests food after the stomach
is an informal or dialectal term for the same digestive tract part
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word kishka originally meant 'intestine' in Yiddish and Slavic languages, so people use it in informal speech to mean the gut or 'guts'.