babka

[bahb-kuh]

noun

1. a sweet, spongy yeast cake with raisins, traditionally made in the form of a high cylinder, either solid or with a hole, often glazed, and sometimes flavored with rum.

Word History and Origins

Origin of babka¹

< Polish, diminutive of baba baba

Example Sentences

Popular items shipped at Thanksgiving time include bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese and chocolate babka, typically ordered to be enjoyed the day after the feast and through that weekend, Russ Federman said.

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I think that babka spent the holidays going stale in the mailroom, being picked off by random employees or nibbled by mice.

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“I feel like we’re in the middle of a babka renaissance this year, as it’s having a moment,” he says.

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In February 2021, friends who attended Hunter College High School with the justice in the 1970s wanted to send her a "care package" of a range of inexpensive items, including bagels, lox, babka and chocolates.

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I learned that I would not work on Saturdays because the Diamants were Jewish and that Mrs. Diamant made excellent babka.

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