piroshki
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- noun
- /pɪˈroʊʃki/
- On a bin for green cabbage that is being rained on, he has left behind his plastic basket, and inside it are kielbasa, piroshki, and delicatessen items.
- little piroshki
Examples
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If you are jonesing for a runza, you really should try a piroshki—yum!
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How's your head, my little piroshki?
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Runzas seem very much like piroshkis or piroshki.
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We'd walk home at a very leisurely pace, up Geary or Clement, stopping for pork buns or piroshki or a Boudin roll, to look at Hello Kitty stuff, and maybe get home an hour and a half after school was out.
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One portly old charmer, who had been upper-middle management in the KGB, filled a whole afternoon around a long leather-topped table by telling me what restaurants to go to and what food to order: smoked sturgeon, piroshki, mushroom pie.
Fiction book (1998) -
At the party, we served freshly baked piroshki filled with meat and vegetables.
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Traditionally, piroshki are enjoyed as a snack in Russian culture, often filled with potatoes or fruit.
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She brought homemade piroshki to share with her friends during the gathering.
Synonyms
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A small folded pastry filled with something like fruit or meat and cooked
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A small Russian bun filled with meat, cheese or fruit, usually baked
Surface Forms
Etymology
Piroshki comes from the Russian pirog, which means 'pie', plus a small ending -ok, and is like the English word pie, so it literally means 'small pies'. That's why piroshki are small baked or fried pastries filled with meat, cheese, or fruit.