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potsticker

potsticker noun: a kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.

Noun

potsticker (plural potstickers)

  1. A kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.
    Synonyms:
    guotie

Synonyms of potsticker

Forms of potsticker

pluralpotstickers
alternative formpot sticker

Origin of potsticker

From pot + sticker, a calque of Mandarin 鍋貼 /锅贴 (guōtiē), coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1963, in the fourth edition of the book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

Questions about potsticker

What does potsticker mean?
Potsticker means a kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.
What part of speech is potsticker?
Potsticker is a noun.
What is the plural of potsticker?
The plural of potsticker is potstickers.

Words near potsticker in the dictionary

  1. potshotted
  2. potshotting
  3. potsie
  4. potsies
  5. potstick
  6. potsticker
  7. potstickers
  8. potsticks
  9. potstone
  10. potstones
  11. potsy

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