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noun

a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt codfish, and mashed potato.

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Also called fish ball .

Origin of fish cake

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby fish cake

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How to use fish cake in a sentence

When Chérif got out of prison, he worked at the fish counter of a supermarket.
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“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
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A big cake requires a big festival, and Augustus was happy to comply.
One Cake to Rule Them All: How Stollen Stole Our Hearts|Molly Hannon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Stollen was paraded through the city of Dresden, and later an appointed “Stollen girl” cut the cake.
One Cake to Rule Them All: How Stollen Stole Our Hearts|Molly Hannon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Now, it is the most traditional and celebrated Christmas cake in Germany—and definitely not associated with fasting.
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He must be The saltest fish that swims the sea.And, oh!He has a secret woe!
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They would feed him apples, potatoes and sometimes bits of cake that Bob's mother gave them.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
Smoking, the angry and fuming king protests, had made our manners as rude as those of the fish-wives of Dieppe.
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But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
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British Dictionary definitions for fish cake

fishcake

/ (ˈfɪʃˌkeɪk) /

noun

a fried ball of flaked fish mixed with mashed potatoes

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