Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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 .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
borscht .
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- noun a Russian or Polish soup usually containing beet juice as a foundation
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Examples
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There was some black bread, a bowl of thick borshch and a pitcher of water, together with a glass.
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Well, they produced seven provisions, love to Ukrainian fat, love to Ukrainian borshch, what else exotic … All this is absurd.
ukrainian fat 2008
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Everyone stayed in the cell while he drank, asked for more water which they brought - and then ate the bread, and drank the borshch with the provided spoon.
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Well, they produced seven provisions, love to Ukrainian fat, love to Ukrainian borshch, what else exotic … All this is absurd.
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Then it occurred to me that I have not yet savoured the taste of borshch-as-imagined-by-Lisa, despite my repeated expressions of salivation and ravenousness.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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There's another way to describe borshch that doesn't contain beets; shchi ... although it normally wouldn't have tomatoes in it.
Cabbage Borscht aka TBTAM 2007
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A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.
Beasts and Super-Beasts 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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They make cheap powdered borshch that's made in Eastern Europe but people know it's not authentic.
blogTO 2010
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Soviets with a little pocket money might make a beeline to their favorite борщ (borshch).
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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Soviets with a little pocket money might make a beeline to their favorite борщ (borshch).
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
bristol-copywriter commented on the word borshch
Borscht may be the Yiddish, but borshch is correctly transliterated Russian & Ukrainian. I will record a pronunciation when my computer lets me…
March 19, 2010
bilby commented on the word borshch
Dear bristol-copywriter's computer,
Please allow master to record a pronunciation of borshch. We're hungry already.
bilby & friends
March 19, 2010