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sateh

sateh is the alternative spelling of satay.

Meaning of satay

Noun

satay (countable and uncountable, plural satays)

  1. A dish made from small pieces of meat or fish grilled on a skewer and served with a spicy peanut sauce, originating from Indonesia and Malaysia.
    • Crabbe bought sateh for all: tiny knobs and wedges of fire-hot meat on wooden skewers, to be dipped in a lukewarm sauce of fire and eaten with slivers of sweet potato and cucumber.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 107

Questions about sateh

What is sateh the alternative spelling of?
Sateh is the alternative spelling of satay.

Words near sateh in the dictionary

  1. sated
  2. satedness
  3. sateen
  4. sateens
  5. sateenwood
  6. sateh
  7. sateless
  8. satellect
  9. satellects
  10. satellitary
  11. satellite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sateh (page history and authors); satay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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