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kreplach

kreplach

3 9.9
A small dumpling filled with meat, often eaten in Jewish meals
  • noun
  • /ˈkrɛplɑx/
translation icon : kreplaj
  • Howie ordered a bowl of kreplach soup and a corned beef sandwich on an onion roll.
  • soup with kreplach
  • fried kreplach
  • chicken soup with kreplach

Examples

  • You've heard of the Battle of Kreplach?

    Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

  • I didn't want to be in a kitchen with a brisket or the fish balls, or the kreplach or the kugel or go out with the boys that turn into men that I don't want to marry.

    For Your Consideration (2006)

  • They got those things called "kreplach."

    Mobsters (1991)

  • The whole kreplach is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.

    Not Fade Away (2012)

  • Ya ignorant Guinea, it's kreplach.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • 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)

  • To serve, bring vegetable stock to a simmer in a large pot. Add the kreplach and heat for 20 minutes at a gentle simmer.

  • But her father had bigger ambitions: a sukkah where thirty people could eat kreplach.

Synonyms

dumpling
vskreplach
41 1.8

A small piece of dough, plain or filled, cooked and eaten, often in soup

is a Jewish stuffed variety eaten traditionally in that cuisine
knaidlach
vskreplach
1 9.9

Small soft dumplings made from matzo meal and served in soup at Passover

is a small dough pocket usually filled with meat or other ingredients

Surface Forms

kreplach singular
kreplachim plural

Etymology

Kreplach comes from Yiddish and originally meant 'little dumplings'. It is related to the German word Krapfen, a kind of 'filled dough', so the name fits its modern meaning as small pockets of dough usually filled with meat or other ingredients.