Definition of "latke" []

• A pancake, especially one made of grated potato. (noun)

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• "No matter how you spell it, latke is Yiddish for fried pancakes, typically of the potato variety."
• "There is another variable in latke preparation: oxidation."
• "The word latke derives from Yiddish, the Jewish language spoken by East European Jews."