kielbasa
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- noun
- /kɪlˈbɑːsə/
:
salchicha polaca
- In the beautiful Stuart Dybek story "We Didn't," he captures all of a certain segment of Chicago when he mentions the smell of the kielbasa in a car that his father "delivered on weekends from my uncle Vincent's meat market."
- kielbasa sausage
- kielbasa and sauerkraut
- smoked kielbasa
If you want to make a kielbasa kale pie, that's that's one thing.
- If you want to make a kielbasa kale pie, that's that's one thing.
- Just a, just a, a kielbasa of children's dreams.
- You know, maybe it's salmon salad, you know, whatever, whatever is not kielbasa.
- Oh, I forgot I had a second visual gag about the fact that I said kielbasa.
Examples
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Preserved sausages, like kielbasa, summer sausage, and mortadella, are pre-cooked, usually by smoking.
Blog text (18) -
Normalcy meant the smell of kishka or kielbasa reaching from kitchen to hall and all through the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
Let me have a couple of kielbasa, will you?
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"I found the kielbasa you left behind."
Fiction book (2001) -
I love kielbasa.
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My own sweet tooth piqued, I stopped at a kielbasa deli.
Fiction book (2001) -
She sliced the kielbasa and the cheese and layered them on the roll.
Fiction book (2002) -
The first of the sausages was a variation of the familiar kielbasa: meat and garlic-based, dark red, smoky, and cured.
Fiction book (2001) -
But already she was reaching into the fridge, removing a hunk of cheese, some kielbasa wrapped in foil, and pulling a knife from the magnetized strip above my head.
Fiction book (2002) -
He grilled a delicious kielbasa for the barbecue, and everyone loved its smoky flavor.
Synonyms
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A food made from ground meat and spices in a thin skin
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A food people make from ground pork and spices inside a skin and cook
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Etymology
The word kielbasa comes from the Polish word kiełbasa, which simply means 'sausage'. It is the same word as Russian kolbasa, so in English it names the traditional Polish smoked or grilled sausage you eat in sandwiches or stews.