gefilte fish
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From Yiddish געפֿילטע פֿיש (gefilte fish, “stuffed fish”), from געפֿילט (gefilt, “stuffed”), from Old High German . (Compare German gefüllter (“stuffed”) + Fisch (“fish”).)
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- A dish of stuffed fish, or of fish cakes in broth.
- 2011 Jan/Feb, Sally Schloss, “The Goose Girl”, in Moment, volume 36, number 1, archived from the original on 18 November 2011, page 49:
- Today you will shop for me. Tonight we will have gefilte fish.
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