Definition of POTSTICKER

potsticker

Meanings

Plural: potstickers

Noun

  • A kind of pan-fried dumpling in East Asian cuisines.

Origin / Etymology

From pot + sticker, a calque of Mandarin 鍋貼 /锅贴 (guōtiē), coined by Buwei Yang Chao in 1963, in the fourth edition of the book How to Cook and Eat in Chinese.

Synonyms

guotie, Peking ravioli

Scrabble Score: 18

potsticker is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
potsticker is not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
potsticker is not valid in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

potsticker is a valid Words With Friends word