fish cake

or fish·cake

[ fish-keyk ]

noun
  1. a fried ball or cake of shredded fish, especially salt cod or whitefish, and mashed or grated potato, bread crumbs, or flour.

Origin of fish cake

1
First recorded in 1850–55
  • Also called fish ball [fish-bawl] /ˈfɪʃ ˌbɔl/ .

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How to use fish cake in a sentence

  • Nothing I transform ever gets back to its former shape again, so these fish-balls can never more be pebbles.

    The Tin Woodman of Oz | L. Frank Baum
  • It consisted of coffee, trout fish-balls, broiled ham, rice and wheat crepes (pancakes) with butter and maple sugar.

    Fishing With The Fly | Charles F. Orvis and Others
  • Beat up an egg and work it into the potato and meat, then form the mixture into little cakes the size of fish balls.

    The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) | Mrs. F.L. Gillette
  • They get fish-balls three times a week for breakfast, as reg'lar as Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday comes round.

    A Modern Instance | William Dean Howells
  • Cut open the bag, put the fish balls on a hot platter, garnish and serve plain with a tomato sauce.

    Standard Paper-Bag Cookery | Emma Paddock Telford

British Dictionary definitions for fishcake

fishcake

/ (ˈfɪʃˌkeɪk) /


noun
  1. a fried ball of flaked fish mixed with mashed potatoes

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