gefilte fish

1. 1.

   well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock

   Synonymsfish ball

   Broaderdish

Questions about gefilte fish

What does gefilte fish mean?

gefilte fish means "well-seasoned balls of ground fish and eggs and crushed crumbs simmered in fish stock".

What is another word for gefilte fish?

Close synonyms include fish ball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gefilte fish a common word?

gefilte fish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.