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  • noun Alternative spelling of pierogi.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried

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Examples

  • Inspired by a local newspaper review, I ordered a delicious (but heavy) pirogi-filled overstuffed sandwich and managed to eat it without spilling sauce on my shirt.

    With my iPhone alone, I'm apped to travel 2010

  • I always get the pirogi, but they also have several different kinds of thick juicy sausages, made from scratch just for this cart.

    Food cart update « Dyepot, Teapot 2007

  • Frost: My most favorite thing that my best friend's mom has made for me is... pirogi.

    Four-Seed Muffins | Vélez Delights VelezDelights 2009

  • That first vision happened in a little shop in San Francisco that sells those Russian "hamburgers" called pirogi.

    A Pattern in My Life (Part I) 2008

  • 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.

    quick potato pierogi | smitten kitchen 2007

  • The last time I made them I had more patience and actually made the pirogi dough myself.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Brilynn 2006

  • She'd been dreaming of pirogi for the past month, wanting them desperately, but now that they were here, she seemed to have lost her appetite.

    Hot And Bothered Leigh, Jo 1999

  • Katy, still dressed in her attorney clothes, a gray tweed suit with a pale-blue silk blouse, tucked her napkin under her chin and dug in to the pirogi.

    Hot And Bothered Leigh, Jo 1999

  • She tooka pirogi and cut it on her plate, added some onions and beets and ate it.

    Hot And Bothered Leigh, Jo 1999

  • The pirogi had just been brought to the table, with lovely sides of crisp sautéed onions and beet relish.

    Hot And Bothered Leigh, Jo 1999

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