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quiche

quiche

27 4.2
A baked pie with a rich egg filling often mixed with cheese or vegetables
  • noun
  • /kiːʃ/
: quiche
  • For brunch, we enjoyed a delicious quiche made with spinach and cheese.
  • eat quiche
  • spinach quiche
  • cheese quiche

You could also add bacon bits in this quiche if you want.

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Examples

  • I made this spinach, caramelized onion, and feta quiche this week, and it was delicious!

    Blog text (5)
  • I'm gonna go make quiche.

  • The thing is, I think last place has to go to the quiche because there is an element of interest.

  • A slice of quiche would be nice.

  • We started to make a quiche and a salad.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • You could also add bacon bits in this quiche if you want.

  • He made a quiche on Tuesday.

  • I had the vegetable quiche for lunch, and it was cooked perfectly.

    Blog text (33)
  • The first one is the fine dining quiche and that is from Monsieur Marcel.

  • Rosemary pulled the quiche out, inserted the knife, and pronounced it still runny.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

pie
vsquiche
878 1.0

A baked pastry with a sweet or savory filling

is open without a top crust and centers on rich egg custard
pastry
vsquiche
115 1.0

A baked item like a croissant or tart that people often eat with coffee

is a specific savory open case filled with rich egg custard
tart
vsquiche
77 1.6

A small open pastry filled with fruit or custard

is a baked open case that specifically uses rich unsweetened egg custard
French pastry
vsquiche
3 3.2

A sweet baked treat from France often filled with cream or jam

is savory and focuses on unsweetened egg custard rather than sweet fillings
flan
vsquiche
  • UK
2 3.4

An open pastry like a tart with a sweet or savory filling

is mainly savory and built on rich unsweetened egg custard

Idioms

A joking phrase that shows old ideas about how men should act

Compounds

A rich open pie made of pastry filled with eggs, cream, cheese and bacon

A Mayan language the Quiche people speak in Guatemala

quiche-eater
  • Offensive
8.6

A person who likes to eat quiche and is seen as fashionable

How Rich

quiche
27 4.2
omelet
  • US
110 1.0
sandwich
872 1.0
salad
600 1.0

Surface Forms

quiche singular
quiches plural

Etymology

The word quiche comes from French and from the German word kuchen, which means 'cake'. Think of a quiche as a 'cake' made with eggs, cheese and other fillings, which explains why the name fits this baked tart.