stuffed derma
- noun
- UK
:
derma relleno
- For the holiday dinner, Grandma prepared a delicious stuffed derma filled with savory spices.
Examples
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Many Jewish families celebrate with a hearty stuffed derma made from roasted fowl intestines.
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At the festive gathering, we enjoyed a traditional stuffed derma alongside other holiday favorites.
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- That stuffed derma was beautiful.
Synonyms
1
9.9
A traditional Jewish food like a sausage made from roasted animal intestine filled with seasoned matzo meal
How Filling
- UK
2
3.3
1
2.0
1
3.4
3
2.7
733
1.0
550
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
stuff + derma
The adjective 'stuffed' transparently signals a filled food item, so learners would infer this is some kind of stuffed animal part. However, 'derma' is obscure (not attested in the provided dictionary entry) and could be misanalysed (e.g. as Greek-derived 'skin'), and the specific sense 'roasted fowl intestines' is not predictable from the parts, so the overall meaning is only partially recoverable.
Etymology
Stuffed derma comes from the literal cooking idea of stuffing an animal's gut. The word derma refers to the 'intestine' used as a skin to hold the filling and stuffed shows it is filled with matzo meal and fat, so the name means the festive dish made from a filled gut.