gribenes

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Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹɪbənəs/

Definition of gribenes

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noun

(uncountable)A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions.

“Oy, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a mohel. It's so chewy.”
“But the only gribenes I ate growing up came from my grandmother’s South Beach kitchen.”

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Borrowed from Yiddish גריבענעס (gribenes), from Middle High German griebe (“piece of fat, crackling”). Compare modern German Griebe.

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