Definitions

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  • noun A type of dumpling eaten by Jews during Passover

Etymologies

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Probably from Yiddish .... Cognate to German Knödel ("dumpling").

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Examples

  • He looked back at me with his knaidel-challenged face as I departed telling him I would have an extra one with him in mind.

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  • When my host opened the lid of the soup, she served me the biggest, and most delicious knaidel I had ever had.

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  • Your overriding desire was for one thing - a knaidel.

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  • "My rabbi tries to warn me / but those matzah balls got me so horny / oh roll that knaidel ..."

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  • "My rabbi tries to warn me / but those matzah balls got me so horny / oh roll that knaidel ..."

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  • "My rabbi tries to warn me / but those matzah balls got me so horny / oh roll that knaidel ..."

    Articles 2009

  • "My rabbi tries to warn me / but those matzah balls got me so horny / oh roll that knaidel ..."

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  • April 28th, 2009 4: 10pm ahad ha'amoratsim maybe now we can get back to some sensible stuff - I think she was a knaidel short of a real chicken soup.) rippon

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