Word of the Day:
gnocchi
What It Means
Italian pasta-like dumpling(s) made of potato or semolina.
Gnocchi in Context
“Test one gnocchi by placing it in a large pot of rapidly boiling lightly salted water.”
Did You Know?
From Italian gnocchi, plural of gnocco (“dumpling”, literally “lump”), related to nocchio (“knot (in wood)”), a borrowing from Lombardic knohha (“knuckle, bone, knot”), from Proto-Germanic *knukô (“bone”), *kneukaz (“tuber, knuckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew- (“knot, bundle”). Cognate with Middle High German knoche (“bone, knot”) (modern German Knochen), Middle Dutch knoke (“knuckle, knob, knot”), Swedish knoge (“knuckle”). More at knuckle.
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