Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A beet soup served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.
Wiktionary
- n. A beetroot/beet soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a Russian soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation, and often served with sour cream. Also, as used in the U.S., a sour cabbage soup, called in Russian
shchi .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
Etymologies
- 1884 or 1808. Yiddish באָרשט (borsht), from Russian or Ukrainian борщ (boršč). (Wiktionary)
- Yiddish borsht, from Russian borshch, cow parsnip (the original base of the soup), borscht. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He advocates taking the word "borscht" out of the equation altogether.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Family Named Gold Tries to Add Cool to a Soup That's the Color Purple
“I understand if you don't like beets by themselves, but good borscht is one of the best soups around.”
“I think of pletzlach as a close to ideal companion for mushroom barley soup, ukrainain borscht, or any other hearty whole meal type soup.”
“Calling this beetroot soup a Polish classic is as inflammatory as an evening on the sliwowica – for a start, the name we generally know it by in this country, borscht, is Russian.”
“Your beet soup or "borscht", as my husband's people call it, looks and sounds incredible.”
“He will be very surprised that I made it, since I normally do not like the "borscht" that his mother makes.”
“Exclude words that are still used to refer only to Russian things, such as borscht, ruble, or samovar.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » English words borrowed from Russian:
“Mrs. Anders had insisted on pronouncing "borscht" the way it was spelled, sounding out the silent "t," and no matter how often he said it correctly, she refused to vary her pronunciation.”
“Load your tray with traditional Polish foods, such as borscht or pierogis, pay the cashier and do a double-take when you realize how little you spent.”
“It was a warm April afternoon -- the kind of afternoon that said, "Kick off your shoes, pick up the Talmud, pour yourself a cup of borscht with a dollop of sour cream, and wile the day away.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘borscht’.
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Five Consecutive Consonants
A list of words containing five consecutive consonants
I do not include words containing "y" as part of the 5-letter string, since that letter invariably functions as a vowel, as in rhythm. <...heartstricken, heartstruck, wellspring, offspring, yachtsman, worthwhile, backstretch, backstroke, downstream, downstroke, breaststroke, birthstone and 188 more...
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Beets
No really, it's a list entirely devoted to beets.
beet, beets, sugar beet, beetroot, beetroots, spinach beet, sea beet, sea-beet, mangel-wurzel, mangelwurzel, Sicilian beet, leaf beet and 35 more...
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Consecutive Consonants
borscht, worthwhile, bronkhurstspruit, latchstring, hirschsprung's di..., backstroke, birthplace, birthstone, breaststroke, corkscrew, downstream, erstwhile and 26 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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mccaff's Words
schadenfreude, defenestration, monogamous, epipsychidion, chintz, befall, brouhaha, shenanigans, hooligans, lambasted, servitude, portcullis and 113 more...
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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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ateolf's list
albescent, orthogonal, logorrhea, raincoat, tautology, horace, rhythm, cunt, hexadecimal, wound, flan, nintendo and 6 more...
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soup words
soup words
gazpacho, minestrone, consomme, avgolemono, chowder, bouillabaisse, borscht, bouillon, mulligatawny, vichyssoise, albondigas, bisque and 47 more...
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Gesundheit!
If you say it juuust so, it sounds like a sneeze.
focaccia, spatula, facetious, hooey, kudzu, syzygy, bivouac, brouhaha, flummox, banshee, bugaboo, chin-up and 68 more...
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Conceptions
Ideas of interesting things.
gharial, ungulate, glossolalia, druze, bultitude, maraschinos, pfifltriggi, borscht, electrifying, instrumentality, lion-eating poet ..., landsknecht and 60 more...
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pomegranate's Words
cataclysm, apocalypse, catharsis, boggle, coriander, sagebrush, sacristy, centripetal, antidote, anecdote, man-who story, hirsute and 61 more...
Tweets
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frindley Nureyev had a favourite recipe. Oct 1, 2008