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pirozhki.

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

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pɪˈɹɒʒkɪ//pɪˈɹɒʃkɪ/
  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
  2. A single such pastry.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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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