hasenpfeffer

American  

[hah-suhn-fef-er] / ˈhɑ sənˌfɛf ər /

Or hassenpfeffer

noun

1. a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.

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Etymology

Origin of hasenpfeffer

1890–95; < German, equivalent to Hasen-, combining form of Hase hare + Pfeffer pepper

Example Sentences

Ah well, Delaware's state bird is the blue hen chicken, and that's surely better than hasenpfeffer.

From Time Magazine Archive

As one of his contributors told me: T saw my articles appear in print colored with such words as privatdozent, geheimrat, bierbruder, and hasenpfeffer which mystified my friends because I don't know German.'

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Into the Bronx restaurant where he worked as chef there had walked one evening a sleek fat man who had called for a dish of hasenpfeffer, Chef Meringer's specialty.*

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