neenish tart
/ˈniːnɪʃ tɑːt
/noun Australian /NZ
A small sweet pastry case filled with cream or mock cream and topped with coloured icing: Jess has a very sweet tooth and loves her neenish tarts...
- The study of basalt columns on the Chatham Islands included in the present exhibition joins a host of similar images playing with repetition and variation, whether of Neenish tarts or the snows on Ruapehu.
- Neenish tarts are rarely seen, instead it's all about the macaron.
- Staffers handed out hot dogs, empanadas and Black and a New York snack that resembles an oversized Neenish tart to calm the freezing hordes.
Origin
Late 19th century: origin unknown, but later variant spellings including nenische and neinich suggest the possibility of an origin in a European Germanic language.