pectopah

See also: ресторан

English

Etymology

Faux Cyrillic reading of Russian рестора́н (restorán, “restaurant”), and the same word in other languages written in Cyrillic. Doublet of restaurant.

Noun

pectopah (plural pectopahs)

1. (rare, humorous) A Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.
   • 1982, Vernon Johnson Mwaanga, An Extraordinary Life, page 172:

     Alex would always comment about the unusually large number of Pectopahs on Gorky Street. I think he thought that it was a chain of shops owned by a company called Pectopah.