KNISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knish mean? 

• KNISH (noun)
  The noun KNISH has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack

  Familiarity information: KNISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("knish" is a kind of...):

turnover (a dish made by folding a piece of pastry over a filling)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)