勝かち栗ぐり

noun

dried chestnut

Chestnuts that have been dried and pounded to remove the shell and inner skin. Traditionally associated with good luck and victory because of the wordplay with 勝ち (victory). Often eaten at celebratory occasions.

• お正しょう月がつに勝かち栗ぐりを食たべると縁えん起ぎがいいと言いわれています。

  It is said that eating dried chestnuts at New Year's brings good luck.

• 祖そ母ぼが勝かち栗ぐりを作つくってくれた。

  My grandmother made dried chestnuts for me.