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leniwe

leniwe noun: a simple Polish dumpling (a kluski) made with farmer cheese or quark.

leniwe: a simple Polish dumpling (a kluski) made with farmer cheese or quark
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Noun

leniwe (uncountable)

  1. A simple Polish dumpling (a kluski) made with farmer cheese or quark.
    • I decided to throw together some leniwe as a simple supper but when she asked if I could top them with fried sauerkraut the whole affair became less lazy and more high-effort.
    • "What will you have, madam?" / "Leniwe, please. But no jam." / "Excellent choice. [as a thought:] Jam is the whole point of leniwe!"2013, Rutu Modan, translated by Jessica Cohen, The Property, Drawn & Quarterly, →ISBN, page 52

Examples of leniwe in a sentence

  • And when I saw this platter of these leniwe with bread crumbs and sugar, I knew that meant that my parents were going out that night, and I got to have dessert for dinner," says Porowski.2021 September 15, Laura Brehaut, “Cook this: Lazy pierogies with wild mushrooms, cabbage and prunes from Let's Do Dinner”, in National...
  • Biting into leniwe and hearing the crunch is my favorite moment.2023, Michał Korkosz, Polish'd: Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 144:

Origin of leniwe

Borrowed from Polish leniwe (literally “lazy”) as a clipped form of the dishes pierogi leniwe and kluski leniwe.

Questions about leniwe

What does leniwe mean?
Leniwe means a simple Polish dumpling (a kluski) made with farmer cheese or quark.
How do you use leniwe in a sentence?
And when I saw this platter of these leniwe with bread crumbs and sugar, I knew that meant that my parents were going out that night, and I got to have dessert for dinner," says Porowski.
What part of speech is leniwe?
Leniwe is a noun.

Words near leniwe in the dictionary

  1. lenitively
  2. lenitiveness
  3. lenitives
  4. lenitude
  5. lenity
  6. leniwe
  7. lenj
  8. lenjes
  9. lenjs
  10. Lenker
  11. Lenker rod

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