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pectopah

pectopah noun: a Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.

Noun

pectopah (plural pectopahs)

  1. (humorous, rare) A Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.
    • Alex would always comment about the unusually large number of Pectopahs on Gorky Street. I think he thought that it was a chain of shops owned by a company called Pectopah.1982, Vernon Johnson Mwaanga, An Extraordinary Life, page 172

Forms of pectopah

pluralpectopahs

Origin of pectopah

Faux Cyrillic reading of Russian рестора́н (restorán, “restaurant”), and the same word in other languages written in Cyrillic. Doublet of restaurant.

Questions about pectopah

What does pectopah mean?
Pectopah means a Russian (or Serbian, Mongolian, etc.) restaurant.
What part of speech is pectopah?
Pectopah is a noun.
What is the plural of pectopah?
The plural of pectopah is pectopahs.

Words near pectopah in the dictionary

  1. pectolyase
  2. pectolyases
  3. pectolytic
  4. pectooligosaccharide
  5. pectooligosaccharides
  6. pectopah
  7. pectopahs
  8. pectopexies
  9. pectopexy
  10. pectora
  11. pectoral

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