gribenes

Borrowed from Yiddish גריבענעס (gribenes), from Middle High German griebe (“piece of fat, crackling”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪbənəs/

gribenes (uncountable)

1. A snack food in Eastern European Jewish cuisine, combining cracklings of chicken or goose skin with fried onions.
   • 2008 February 20, “Letters”, in New York Times‎:

     But the only gribenes I ate growing up came from my grandmother’s South Beach kitchen.

   • 1993, Randi Mayem Singer, Leslie Dixon, Mrs. Doubtfire:

     Oi, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a Mohel. It's so chewy.

• see list in greaves

• “gribenes”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Ebingers, Isenberg, rebegins