Etymology

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Today it means: A Mennonite dish of raisin fritters — fried, roughly ball-shaped pieces of dough with raisins in them — eaten especially on New Year's Day. Full definition →

German Low German Porzelke
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  1. German Low German · derived fromPorzelke
  2. English todayportzelky

From or related to Prussian German Low German Porzelke (see Porzelchen, porzelchen), diminutive of Porzel f or n (whence German Porzeln).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.