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potsticker

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
pot-stick-er
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.

Etymology

From pot + sticker, a calque of Mandarin 鍋貼 /锅贴 (guōtiē), coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1963, in the fourth edition of the book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

Inflected Forms

potstickers (plural) pot sticker (alternative)

Phrases

Peking ravioli

Frequently Paired Words

jiaozi Peking ravioli

Synonyms

guotie

Questions

What does potsticker mean?
A kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.
Where does potsticker come from?
From pot + sticker, a calque of Mandarin 鍋貼 /锅贴 (guōtiē), coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1963, in the fourth edition of the book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

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