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Pirozhki

//pɪˈɹɒʒkɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Small pastries filled with finely chopped meat, vegetables or fruit baked or fried, from eastern European cuisine, or a serving of these. countable, uncountable

    "Nica handed Mark a pirazhok. Maybe from the extra excitement, maybe because the pirozhki really were delicious, she swallowed them both immediately."

  2. 2
    small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried wordnet
  3. 3
    A single such pastry. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Russian пирожки́ (pirožkí), plural of пирожо́к (pirožók), which is in turn a diminutive of пиро́г (piróg, “pie”). (In Russian Mennonite communities, borrowed first into Plautdietsch in Russia and Ukraine, and then taken from Plautdietsch into English in the US.) Doublet of pyrizhky and perieschkje.

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