Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A semicircular dumpling with any of various fillings, such as finely chopped meat or vegetables, that is often sautéed after being boiled.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Polish pierogi, singular pieróg, or Ukrainian пироги (pyrohý), singular пиріг (pyríh). (Wiktionary)
- Polish, pl. of pieróg, dumpling, and Russian pirogi, pl. of pirog. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word pierogi is plural for a reason; one is never enough.”
“The Polish agree that what we call a pierogi is actually that, but the Russian pirogi also called pirozhki or piroshki are actually small buns made with a yeast or short dough.”
“What we call pierogi, the Russian would consider vareniki.”
“In Poland these would be described as pierogi, or in Russia, as pelmeni - basically they were little half moons of a pasta-like dough wrapped around a great cherry filling.”
“There one could also find a special kind of pierogi, large chewy kreplach: fist-sized dumplings filled with seasoned stew meat and onions before being boiled, baked, then fried, the last step glazing and toughening them like bagels.”
“Our menu includes crowd favorites such as pierogi, haluski and cabbage rolls.”
“pierogi" is polish for pierogi like chef boyardee chicken ravioliPierogis are the Polish answer to the filled dumpling, much like Italians have ravioli, Chinese have won tons, Koreans have mahn-doo, and Argentineans have empanadas.”
“Artist hopes a pierogi will rise in Northeast (Abby Simons).”
“It also knocks on the head the notion that fast food is a North American phenomenon, but for too long pierogi were displaced by the superior marketing of McDonald's.”
“Polish pierogi, a cross between a doughy dumpling and Italian ravioli or tortellini, are not to be confused with the Russian pirozhki, a baked bun stuffed with savoury or sweet fillings.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pierogi’.
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The Pasta Master
My favourite is potato
gnocchi,interesting that lists
devoted to pasta exclusively
missed pasta puttanesca,those who
really textually mine dictionaries
would not miss...manicotti, spaggers, stelline, spaghettini, spag, linguine, fettuccine, penne, rigatoni, mezzani, zita, spaghetti and 391 more...
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Noodles: Slurp 'em up!
Noodles and noodle types from around the world.
Who's hungry?wheat, udon, tea, sweet potato, soba, Sevian, rice vermicelli, rice stick, rice sheet, rice, quenelle, potato and 23 more...
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Food words
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A Crumb Of Comfort
Types of bread & breadmaking terms. Mainly I'm looking for plain or savoury breads but I'll accept the sweet-ish ones as long as they are more bread than cake :-)
lagana, khobz, pita, foccaccia, ciabatta, bap, altamura, knead, leaven, crumpet, muffin, bagel and 202 more...
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Pasta la Vista
Because John's and colleen's and Lampbane's lists are their own, and they're such pasta hogs I have to make sure I get some for myself. :)
Includes noodles and other noodle-based items...zituane, rotini, rigati, marziani, salamini, fagioletti, eliche grandi, eliche, elefante, rotellini, rotelli, ziti and 296 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Food for Thought
A breaded foray of words
lady, appanage, companion, penuche, pastille, pantry, panicle, panocha, pannier, panatela, panada, panada and 87 more...
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Flour, water, and eggs =
Pasta!
campanelle, cavatelli, conchiglie, farfalle, fioriettini, fusilli, lanterne, orecchiette, pipe, rotelle, rotini, strozzapreti and 33 more...
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Dumpling City
dumpling, jiaozi, potsticker, wonton, baozi, xiao long bao, pork bun, red bean bun, pineapple bun, coconut bun, gyoza, shumai and 33 more...
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yearofglad's words
bildungsroman, icosahedron, defenestration, fantod, sesquipedalian, philopena, sjambok, prandial, palimpsest, logorrhea, eschatology, jodhpur and 47 more...
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Edible
sashimi, tiramisu, quenepa, lychee, dulce de leche, flan, buffalo wings, sorbet, pasteles, sherbet, turducken, mochi and 79 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pierogi.
chained_bear GOOD GOD, I love these. Nov 28, 2007
bilby Up in Karelia anyway it was a flattish bread made from potatoes, sometimes filled with rice. Resembled the Finnish piirakka. Nov 28, 2007
yarb Not seen this as a bread before. Always dumplings. Nov 28, 2007
bilby A potato bread in Russia, more of a dumpling in the Czech republic. Nov 27, 2007