knish
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From the Yiddish קניש (knish), from the Polish knysz and Ukrainian книш (knyš), from Turkic.
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knish (plural knishes)
- An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a shell of baked or fried dough
