Fishy foods (Sp)
Noun
: a fish product made from inexpensive whitefish (such as pollack) and often processed to resemble more expensive seafood (such as crab meat or scallops)
Japanese.
surimi
What does it mean to prattle?
A. to have a slip of the tongue
B. to tell an authority about someone else's actions to get them in trouble
C. to chat idly, often with a lot of words
C. to chat idly, often with a lot of words
Noun
: a brake (Pteridium aquilinum) whose young fronds are eaten in Japan
Japanese.
warabi
What is a one-liner?
A. a journey to a place, but not back from it
B. a witty quip or joke
C. one's signature
B. a witty quip or joke
Noun
: a molded cold sweet of cereal with fruit or nuts
Welsh
flummery
Noun
: a fish stew similar to bouillabaisse that is usually thickened with egg yolks and strongly flavored with garlic
French from Provencal from Latin.
bourride
What is a tirade?
A. a witty remark
B. a love ode
C. an angry rant
C. an angry rant
Noun
: the dried tubers of various European orchids or East Indian orchids containing gum and starch and being used for food (as tapioca) and as a demulcent
French from Arabic.
salep
What does two-bit mean?
A. seeking revenge
B. old-fashioned
C. not very valuable
C. not very valuable
Noun
: a small round usually silvered confection often used for decorating cakes
French from Latin from Greek.
dragée
Noun
: a Greek dip or spread made from puréed salted fish roe, bread or potato, oil, lemon juice, and seasonings
New Greek from Turkish + New Greek.
taramosalata
What does sotto voce mean?
A. shouted loudly
B. sung in an opera-like style
C. said in a whisper
C. said in a whisper
Noun
: any of the brown-shelled white-fleshed nuts borne in the fruit of a tall South American tree -- also called a "Brazil nut"
Spanish & Portuguese, of Arawakan origin.
juvia
What is a catch-22?
A. a quick, easy solution to a problem
B. a place of excessive censorship or oversight
C. a paradoxical situation
C. a paradoxical situation
Noun
: a Philippine cake that is made with rice flour, water, and sometimes other ingredients (such as butter, sugar, cheese, or coconut) and that is traditionally cooked between banana leaves
Tagalog
bibingka
Noun
: the dried, salted, pressed roe of various fish and especially the gray mullet and bluefin tuna
Italian from Arabic from Greek.
bottarga
What is stultiloquence?
A. stuttering
B. a way of talking that uses few words
C. an eloquent, grandiose speaking style
A. stuttering
Noun
: a tropical African plant of the family Cucurbitaceae cultivated for its edible seeds which also yield an oil
Shambala.
jikungu
What does ground zero mean?
A. a losing position in an argument
B. the origin place of something
C. a safe haven
B. the origin place of something
Noun
: a pastry made with cream-cheese dough that is rolled around a filling (as of nuts, jam, or chocolate) and baked
Yiddish of Slavic origin.
rugelach, rugalach
Noun
: dried fish eaten with curry -- also called "Bombay duck"
Marathi.
bummalo
What is a panegyric?
A. an expression of high praise
B. a speech given at a funeral
C. a figure of speech or idiom
A. an expression of high praise
Noun
: the edible nutlike seed of the American lotus that has the flavor of a chinquapin
Ojibwa.
wankapin
What does deep six mean?
A. the entirety or totality of a thing
B. a group of trusted advisors
C. a state of being discarded or laid to rest
C. a state of being discarded or laid to rest
Noun
: a thin egg batter pancake stuffed with jam
German from Hungarian from Romanian from Latin.
palatschinken