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piroshki

piroshki

1 9.9
A small baked or fried bun with a filling such as meat, cheese and fruit
  • noun
  • /pɪˈroʊʃki/
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  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Traditionally, piroshki are enjoyed as a snack in Russian culture, often filled with potatoes or fruit.

  • She brought homemade piroshki to share with her friends during the gathering.

Synonyms

pirozhki
vspiroshki
1 9.9

A small Russian bun filled with meat, cheese or fruit, usually baked

has identical meaning but appears as an alternate spelling
pirogi
vspiroshki
1 8.0

A small folded pastry filled with something like fruit or meat and cooked

has the same meaning but uses a different spelling form

Surface Forms

piroshki singular
piroshkis plural

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.