bifshtek
/ˌbɪfˈʃtɛk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Russian ground meat dish, often made from beef, consisting of minced meat mixed with various ingredients such as onions, spices, and sometimes breadcrumbs or eggs, shaped into patties or cutlets and pan-fried or baked.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Here iss the dinner! There iss no truffles—there iss no goose—there iss no fish—but we have nice bifshteks!"
- "“Russian food is satisfactory but lacks variety,[”] notes the new expanded edition of Pan American World Airways” travel booklet “New Horizons.” “Meats, including ‘bifshtek’ are often tough and greasy, vegetables overcooked,” it points out."
- "Now, about your restaurants, I don’t relish the idea of paying 30 or 40 rubles for greasy bifshtek and overcooked vegetables."
- "The food is flavorful but often on the heavy side. Meats, including “Bifshtek,” and vegetables are cooked long."
- "Blood donors were not lacking: all the physicists “on duty” were ready to volunteer, and several whose blood group was the same as Landau’s had been selected and advised to eat much bifshtek."
- "Scan the menu in a Moscow restaurant, any Moscow restaurant—any restaurant in any Russian city: languette, entrecote, schnitzel, bifshteck,^([sic]) shashlyk. This is a Russian restaurant?"