Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable A style of Pakistani cooking in which the food is cooked in an iron pan having two handles.
  • noun countable A dish cooked in this style.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Urdu بالٹی (baalti, "pail")

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word balti.

Examples

  • If someone has the temerity to push an A5 piece of paper through your letterbox, offering you a balti meal deal in spite of your pithy homemade NO HAWKERS.

    That's Britain!: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • Eileen's entire life consists of eating a balti slice, wearing a minicab controller's headset and berating her son Jason's ex-girlfriends.

    Grace Dent's world of lather 2010

  • Liberal Democrats comments: bonkers burnham balti birdsong said ...

    "Politics is failing Wales" 2008

  • Despite working so hard, they still had the sense of humor to refer to our bank plan as “the balti bailout,” after the take-out curry dish that had been so regularly delivered to officials trapped in meeting rooms hammering out the deal and unable to leave for meals.

    Beyond the Crash Gordon Brown 2010

  • For instance, we're looking to put on films in a former church or above one of the balti restaurants on the main road.

    Pride of Place 2010

  • But in the world of Westminster expense claims, you are guilty until proven innocent so if Alex Salmond wants his name cleared, the balti is in his court, so to speak.

    You'll have had your tea First Minister? Jeff 2009

  • But in the world of Westminster expense claims, you are guilty until proven innocent so if Alex Salmond wants his name cleared, the balti is in his court, so to speak.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jeff 2009

  • Beer and sandwiches may have given way to balti and shiraz with isolated shoals of fish and chips, but the big formal bash is anathema.

    Law Maker, Promise Breaker: Questions for Ashcroft 2007

  • Beer and sandwiches may have given way to balti and shiraz with isolated shoals of fish and chips, but the big formal bash is anathema.

    Archive 2007-12-02 2007

  • Beer and sandwiches may have given way to balti and shiraz with isolated shoals of fish and chips, but the big formal bash is anathema.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.