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schnitzel.

A dish consisting of fried veal cutlet.

9 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʃnɪts(ə)l/
  1. A dish consisting of fried veal cutlet.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A Germanic dish of breaded and deep-fried meat cutlet.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
  3. A cutlet from this dish.

    countable
Where this word comes from

Unadapted borrowing from German Schnitzel (“cutlet”).

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