croquette

Meaning

A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.

Synonyms

croquet

hamburger

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rissole

meat ball

Translations

croqueta

croquette

Krokette

croquete

croqueta

kroket

crocchetta

κροκέτα

köfte

κεφτές

Kroketten

David Crockett

Brätling

kokteyl köftesi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɹoʊˈkɛt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.