Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin, rolled blini, usually filled with cottage cheese, folded, sautéed or baked, and often served with sour cream.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Jewish Cookery) a thin wheat pancake folded around a filling (such as cheese or fruit) and sauteed, fried, or baked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thin blini ,filled (often with sweet cheese) andfolded , thensautéed orbaked and often served withsour cream or a sweet sauce.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At a recent meeting, Dorson served a cheesy, crepelike pastry called a blintz and explained the legendary story of how a Hebrew woman named Judith used it to help the ancient army of Israel conquer its enemy.
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An English noun which is definitely back-formed from a plural is blints (often misspelled "blintz").
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The sound made in the throat when ingesting a blintz that's too dry.
Mark C. Miller: Test-a-Jew: How to Make Sure Your Date Is Really Jewish Mark C. Miller 2011
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I too have suffered paralysis in a plethora of possibility: belly or Nova, herring or tongue, chub or sable, kreplach or kishke, kugel or blueberry blintz ...
Par Delicatesse 2010
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Do they really prefer an overbaked popover to a cheese blintz, which, by the way, Mr TBTAM's cousin Maureen declared was the closest she'd ever tasted to Aunt Eleanor's homemade?
There Goes the Neighborhood... aka TBTAM 2008
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Shirley's daughter Saundra Bromberg of Fairfax ferries the just-made blintz wrappers out to the table, where they land on the waxed paper with a damp smack.
Blintz patrol Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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Per blintz (with potato filling, using nonfat milk): 60 calories, 2 g protein, 6 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 30 mg cholesterol, 120 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar
Blintz patrol Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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Per blintz (with cheese filling, using nonfat milk): 70 calories, 4 g protein, 4 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat, 2 g saturated fat, 40 mg cholesterol, 135 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar
Blintz patrol Bonnie S. Benwick 2010
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And i went there ‘specially to have some…and there’s no place else in town that makes a decent blintz.
All you can eat bufeh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Has George Bush ever been to a bar mitzvah or eaten a blintz?
Jon Wiener: "[Expletive] the Jews. They didn't vote for us anyway": Republicans and Israel 2008
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