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Where does “pizza puff” come from?

pizza puff (English) comes from English pizza, from Italian pizza, from Neapolitan pizza, from Byzantine Greek πίτα — cake, pie; pie; Alternative form of πίττα , Attic...

pizza puff (English): A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a...

Definitions

  1. A dough pouch filled with the ingredients of a...

Ancestry of “pizza puff”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpizzaA baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread...
2Italianpizzapizza; reel; something very monotonous and...
3Neapolitanpizzapizza
4Byzantine Greekπίταcake, pie; pie; Alternative form of πίττα , Attic...
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