pieróg
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Polish pieróg. Doublet of pirog.
Noun
[edit]pieróg (plural pierogi)
- Rare form of pierogi.
- 2010 November 19, Victor Sack, “Pelmeni, perogie, peroshki...”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
- That thing certainly does not look anything like a pieróg. To me, it looks like sliced boiled potato.
- 2014 April, Jenny Bowman, “Delicacy of the north: Pierogies, recently opened in Oak Island, dishes up Polish dumplings to perfection”, in Southport Magazine, volume two, number seven, page 14:
- So what is a pieróg, exactly? (Plural is pierogi or can be pierogies.) Well, it’s essentially a dough dumpling stuffed with savory goodness like potato and cheese or onion, hot sausage, or sauerkraut, to name a few fillings.
- 2018, Kaitlyn Cammer, “St. Volodymyr’s the Great Ukrainian Catholic Church”, in Utica Proud, volume one, page 30:
- Giving Back to the Community One Pieróg at a Time
- 2019 September, Geraldine Balut Coleman, “Tekla Klebetnica Thrills Crowds”, in Polish American Journal, volume 108, number 9, section “Celebrating Pierogi”, page 7, column 3:
- But there was also one pieróg version that did not win the popularity contest. It was called pizzowego (pizzarogis), a pieróg filled with a combination of sausage, pepperoni, and cheese, doused with tomato sauce.
- 2022 April 14, Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, “At this Ukrainian restaurant, dumplings go by many names, but always taste like home”, in The Arizona Republic[1]:
- In the photo she's wearing a green floral headscarf and spooning cherry filling into a pieróg.
Polish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Polish piróg, from Proto-Slavic *pirogъ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pieróg m inan (diminutive pierożek, related adjective pierogowy)
- dumpling (ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough)
- pierogi (square- or crescent-shaped Polish dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling)
- pirog (baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe)
- (historical, military) bicorn (two-cornered hat worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s)
- Synonym: bikorn
- (vulgar) vulva, pudenda (external female sex organs)
Declension
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