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kish⋅ke

[kish-kuh]
–noun
1. Also called stuffed derma. Jewish Cookery. a beef or fowl intestine stuffed with a mixture, as of flour, fat, onion, and seasonings, and roasted.
2. kishkes, Slang. the innermost parts; guts.
Also, kishka.


Origin:
1935–40; < Yiddish < Slavic; cf. Pol kiszka sausage
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kish·ke also kish·ka   (kĭsh'kə)   
n.  See derma2.

[Yiddish, from Russian kishka, intestine; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]
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