English Explanatory Dictionary

chimney cake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of long, cylindrical Hungarian pastry made from sweet yeast dough and roasted over charcoal, originating from the Székely people (kürtőskalács).

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-chimney cake.wav

Word forms

chimney cake chimney cakes

Etymology

Calque of Hungarian kürtőskalács, from kürtős (“of or related to a chimney stack”) (from kürtő (“chimney stack”) + -s (adjective-forming suffix)) + kalács (“cake”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary