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danish

nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈdeɪ.nɪʃ//

Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.

noun

  1. 1

    Danish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.

    Get me a coffee and a cheese danish.

    Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh? Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap. Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot.

Etymology

Ellipsis of Danish pastry.

Forms

plural
danishes
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).