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- noun Alternative spelling of
kishke .
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Examples
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It's a traditional Jewish deli that serves kishka, whitefish salad, and pastrami piled like a skyscraper.
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It's a traditional Jewish deli that serves kishka, whitefish salad, and pastrami piled like a skyscraper.
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New year: new car; they go together like kishka and kuggel.
Gay Cars: Society and Style Berk, Brett 2009
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Sometimes more like a Summer Sausage, others a full on Kielbasa...right now, a freakin' kishka up in there!
BSNYC Friday Fum Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Hall didn't grow up eating bacon-wrapped matzo balls, but haggis, schmaltz and kishka were often on the table.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Adele loved chulent and kishka and used expressions like nishtugedach in her everyday conversation.
Beyond BT - The Baal Teshuva / Baal Teshuvah site for Baalei Teshuva / Baalei Teshuvah and Other Growth Oriented Jews Anxious Ima 2010
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Jewish, like rugelach (stuffed and rolled pastries), babka (cakes filled with chocolate, cinnamon-nut or almond paste) and kishka (beef intestine stuffed with matzo meal).
NYT > Travel By DINAH SPRITZER 2010
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Eastern European kishka is a blood sausage made with pig's blood and barley or buckwheat, with pork intestines used as casing.
Warren Ellis 2009
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"Is that a kishka in your pocket, or are you just happy to grope me?"
LGF Watch 2008
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I already told my buddies in Lawrence we'll serve cholent and kishka in Washington every Thursday afternoon. "
Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?) admin 2010
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