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kabob
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noun
  1. (alternative spelling of, kebab).
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kasha
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noun
  1. A porridge made from boiled buckwheat or other cereals.
    • 2005: Kristina Pankofska, a Polish exile whom Anna Petrovna paid a gold rouble a month to clean and help, arrived with a pail of hot and two new eggs. " James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 171)
kava
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noun
  1. A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.
  2. An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.
kebab
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noun
  1. A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skew or spit.
kefir
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noun
  1. a fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe
ketchup
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noun
  1. A tomato-vinegar based sauce. (The term is now used almost exclusively to refer to tomato ketchup, however, at one time it was a more general term for sauce and is still occasionally used in this way, such as grape-ketchup.)
kidney
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noun
  1. An organ in the body that produces urine.
  2. This organ (of an animal) cooked as food
kielbasa
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noun
  1. A spicy, smoked Polish sausage
kimchi
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noun
  1. A Korean dish made of vegetables, such as cabbage or radishes, that are salted, seasoned, and stored in sealed containers to undergo lactic acid fermentation.
kipper
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noun
  1. A split, salted and smoked herring.
verb (kippers, kippering, kippered)
  1. To prepare a herring or similar fish in that fashion.
knackwurst
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noun
  1. a sausage similar to a frankfurter, but shorter and thicker.
knish
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noun
  1. An Eastern European Jewish or Yiddish snack food consisting of a dumpling covered with a baked or fried dough shell.
knuckle
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noun
  1. Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.
  2. By extension of (1) a mechanical joint.
  3. A cut of meat.
  4. (context, sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
Kraut
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proper noun
  1. (derogatory slang) A German.
kreplach
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noun (plural)
  1. small dumplings, filled with meat or cheese and served in soup.
kuchen
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noun
  1. Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee
kugel
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noun
  1. A baked pudding of rice, pasta, or potatoes with vegetables or raisins and spices; a traditional Jewish dish
kumiss
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noun
  1. fermented mare's or camel's milk as a beverage
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