blintz

[ blints ]

nounJewish Cooking.
  1. a thin pancake folded or rolled around a filling, as of cheese or fruit, and fried or baked.

Origin of blintz

1
First recorded in 1900–05; from Yiddish blintse; compare Byelorussian blints-, stem of blinéts, diminutive of blin “pancake”; see blin
  • Also blintze [blints, blint-suh]. /blɪnts, ˈblɪnt sə/.

Words that may be confused with blintz

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British Dictionary definitions for blintz

blintz

blintze

/ (blɪnts) /


noun
  1. a thin pancake folded over a filling usually of apple, cream cheese, or meat

Origin of blintz

1
C20: from Yiddish blintse, from Russian blinyets little pancakes; see blini

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