fishcake

plural fishcakes · alternative fish cake · alternative fish-cake

1. countableuncountableA mixture of flaked fish, mashed potato or another starch, and seasoning, made into a patty and shallow fried.

   Appetizers came, but after a few minutes of lifting forkfuls of air, some couples went feral, snatching fistfuls of fishcake and pawing at the mesclun.

   2010 May 7, Sarah Maslin Nir, “Nocturnalist | If Seeing Is Believing, What Is Tasting?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2010

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   There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.

   1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days