croquette means A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
croquette is pronounced /kɹoʊˈkɛt/.
Etymology
Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.
noun
- A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.“chicken croquettes”