blintz
[ blints ]
nounJewish Cooking.
a thin pancake folded or rolled around a filling, as of cheese or fruit, and fried or baked.
Origin of blintz
1First 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
- blintz , blitz
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British Dictionary definitions for blintz
blintz
blintze
/ (blɪnts) /
noun
a thin pancake folded over a filling usually of apple, cream cheese, or meat
Origin of blintz
1C20: from Yiddish blintse, from Russian blinyets little pancakes; see blini
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