Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A traditional Scandinavian dish made from stockfish that has been soaked in a lye solution for several days before cooking, becoming soft and gelatinous.
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- noun A
traditional Nordic dish made fromstockfish andsoda lye .
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- noun dried cod soaked in a lye solution before boiling to give it a gelatinous consistency
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I suspect that for future generations of Ethiopan-Americans and others of East African ancestry, injera will be what lutefisk is for Scandinavian-Americans; the traditional food which most outsiders won't touch.
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In addition to skiing, the fjords -- miles and miles of dramatic landscape, salmon/lox, something called lutefisk.
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: A View from Norway C. M. Rubin 2011
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A 'lutefisk' maker as a boy, he had an unmatched run in politics.
Macleans.ca 2009
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Which explains all those lutefisk festivals in MN and ND.
Matthew Yglesias » US Against Them: Ethnocentic Foundations of American Opinion 2010
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Because she looks lovely, and we would look like three-month-old lutefisk in some of these colors.
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(A college student who studied "The Zombie as Metaphor" is no substitute for radio detective Guy Noir, but a military-trained female diner owner offers some hope that lutefisk will one day again reign supreme at church suppers.)
5 books on zombies Yvonne Zipp 2010
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STILL, way better than another upper midwest staple .... lutefisk!
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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Not a single boy thanks me when I put the lutefisk on his plate and I know why.
The Trouble With May Amelia Jennifer L. Holm 2011
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STILL, way better than another upper midwest staple .... lutefisk!
Fried Carp, Anyone? 2009
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After midnight, talk turned to ghosts, then moved on to lutefisk recipes.
Latest Freemason Conspiracy: Recruiting Younger Bros Barry Newman 2011
yarb commented on the word lutefisk
Also lutfisk.
October 16, 2008
dontcry commented on the word lutefisk
Swedes drop the "e." Unfortunately, it doesn't improve the taste...
October 17, 2008