gefilte fish

American  

[guh-fil-tuh] / gəˈfɪl tə /

Or gefillte fish,

noun

Jewish Cooking.

1. a forcemeat of boned fish, especially such freshwater fish as carp, pike, or whitefish, blended with eggs, matzo meal, and seasoning, shaped into balls or sticks and simmered in a vegetable broth, and often served chilled.

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gefilte fish British  

/ ɡəˈfɪltə /

noun

1. Jewish cookery a dish consisting of fish and matzo meal rolled into balls and poached, formerly served stuffed into the skin of a fish

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Etymology

Origin of gefilte fish

1890–95; < Yiddish: literally, stuffed fish

Example Sentences

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gefilte fish

Would your bubbe like a side of merch with that gefilte fish?

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

And sometimes I’m just like, you know, gefilte fish is this Jewish food.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

Jewish families observing Passover have struggled to pay for eggs, gefilte fish and the unleavened bread known as matzo, which represents their ancestors’ exodus from slavery in Egypt.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

Mrs. Adler's Gefilte Fish, though not as good, remained passable; Rokeach, by contrast, is to gefilte fish what packing peanuts are to real peanuts.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2021

Transitioning seamlessly into Yiddish, she added savagely, “Do you have gefilte fish for brains?”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros