Definitions

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  • adjective On a skewer

Etymologies

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From Turkish şiş, "skewer".

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Examples

  • I ordered fattoush, the salad I had loved in Beirut; hummus; and chicken tikka, the local name for what they called shish taouk in Beirut.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • I ordered fattoush, the salad I had loved in Beirut; hummus; and chicken tikka, the local name for what they called shish taouk in Beirut.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • It's the Lebanese version of meat dumplings, called shish barak.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Mercedes 2009

  • It's the Lebanese version of meat dumplings, called shish barak.

    Shish Barak (Lebanese Meat Dumplings in Yogurt Sauce) Mercedes 2009

  • Both kinds of kebabs are available, the kind made with chunks of skewered meat are known as shish kebabs from the Turkish sis and the kind made with ground meat are called kefta or kofte kebabs.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Mercedes 2008

  • Both kinds of kebabs are available, the kind made with chunks of skewered meat are known as shish kebabs from the Turkish sis and the kind made with ground meat are called kefta or kofte kebabs.

    The Power of Kebab Mercedes 2008

  • Liha (meats) -- preferably plastic buckets of chicken or pork šašlõkk -- what we in the US might refer to as shish kebab.

    Itching for Eestimaa 2009

  • One of them has even sort of ... melted ... around the string holding it up, so that it looks like the the white nylon rope is springing out of the fruit like some kind of shish kebab.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Big Jim 2008

  • One of them has even sort of ... melted ... around the string holding it up, so that it looks like the the white nylon rope is springing out of the fruit like some kind of shish kebab.

    This Can't end well, Redux Big Jim 2008

  • The wood carvers of Madhya Pradesh, with great sensitivity and skill transform different varieties of wood such as shish, teak, dhudi, sal and kikar into works of art.

    WN.com - Articles related to Raksha Bandhan Messages, Rakhi Festival SMS, scraps, greeting cards, photo gallery 2010

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