kreplekh
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of kreplach.
Example Sentences
- "“Only Russian Cafe in St. Louis / My Grandma’s recipes for Borsht, Piroshki, Kreplekh, and home made pastries.” Ibids […] only / Russian Cafe / in St. Louis […] Borsht - Piroshki - Kreplekh"
- "Daniel was pacing in front of the stove. Mama was rolling out dough for kreplekh, trying to ignore him."
- "There should be dairy dishes, cheese kreplekh. Secular Jews like fine food just as much as religious Jews."
- "The extrusive details scattered throughout the book without comment about material goods, clothes, places, and the like are valuable precisely because they are unremarked: their unquestioned acceptance by the reader (or more precisely the reader’s presumed unquestioned acceptance on the writer’s part) may suggest these items’ circulation within social discourse.⁵³"
- "“The stories remind us of the wide range of dairy dishes,” [Ben] Katchor writes. “The potato knishes, the milkhiker borscht, the cheese kreplekh, the varnishkes, the pirogen, blintzes, buttermilk, and for dessert pudding and poppy cakes — the food of a Jew’s pastoral dream.”"
Etymology
From Yiddish קרעפּלעך (kreplekh).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: קרעפּלעך