kishke

[Yiddish, from Russian kishka, intestine.]

[KIHSH-keh] A Jewish-American sausage made with flour, matzo meal, fat, onions and ground meat. The mixture is stuffed into a beef casing before being steamed, then roasted.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (Jewish) roasted fowl intestines with a seasoned filling of matzo meal and suet
  Synonym: stuffed derma

Kishka can be:

Food

• Kishka (food) various sausages of Eastern European origin made by stuffing intestine (derma) with meat, blood (often) and a grain
• Kishke (Jewish food) a type of sausage

People

• Kiszka (family), a szlachta family in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Jan Kiszka
• Janusz Kiszka

Other uses

• Intestine or gut, in East Slavic languages, also used in English-language Yiddishisms
• Kishka (prison cell), a type of cell in Soviet political prisons

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