shashlik
/ˈʃaʃlɪk
/noun (plural same or shashliks)
(In Asia and eastern Europe) a mutton kebab.Millions of acres are burnt every year in this place because somebody has gone out to have a fire and cook their shashlik (meat kebab)....
- We ordered a pork shashlik, grilled zargan fish and grilled blue fish.
- The pork cutlets also looked good, although the shashlik I ordered was strangely cold.
Origin
From Russian shashlyk, based on Turkish şiş 'spit, skewer'; compare with shish kebab.
- beforeness
- before one can (or has time to) draw breath
- before one can say Jack Robinson
- before one knows where one is (or before one knows it)
- before (or after) the fact
- before (or in front of or under) one's (very) eyes
- before (or since) the rinderpest
- beforesaid
- before-tax
- before the mast
- before the wind
- before time
- beforetimes
- before you can say knife
- before–after
- be for it
- be for (or all for) the best
- be for the high jump
- befoul
- be fresh out of
- befriend
- be frightened of one's shadow
- be frightened (or scared) out of one's wits
- befuddle
- befuddlement