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ponchik

ponchik noun: a type of fried dough pastry popular in many Central Asian and Eastern European countries, made by deep-frying dough until it becomes puffy, then filling it with custard, jam, or cream, and sometimes glazing the result or dusting it with powdered sugar.

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Noun

ponchik (plural ponchiks or ponchiki)

  1. A type of fried dough pastry popular in many Central Asian and Eastern European countries, made by deep-frying dough until it becomes puffy, then filling it with custard, jam, or cream, and sometimes glazing the result or dusting it with powdered sugar.
    • Her ladyship was reduced to the pitiable choice of yesterday’s croissants or one of the nine different kinds of rolls, milk breads, sweet breads, scones, pancakes, vatrushki, kalachi, ponchiki, rogaliki and bulochki whose delicious, new-baked smell was wafting all over the house.1967, Ira J. Morris, chapter III, in The Troika Belle, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 16
    • Remove a ponchik from the oil with the slotted spoon and break open to see if the dough inside has been baked through.1983, Anne Volokh, “[Desserts] Ponchiki s Povidlom ili Vareniem: Filled Doughnuts”, in The Art of Russian Cuisine, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 558

Examples of ponchik in a sentence

  • Thousands settled in Brighton Beach where the street vendors sell knish-like potato ponchiks and caviar.1995, John Grabowski, David Rhoden, “The Empire State”, in Awesome Almanac: New York: A Treasury of Facts and Fictions, Celebrities and...
  • ‘We’re not as colourful as the Ukrainians,’ explained an ex-New Yorker to Beagan while dishing out lashings of cabbage rolls and potato ponchiks.1996, Rory MacLean, “Trees in the Bog”, in The Oatmeal Ark: Across Canada by Water, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, →ISBN...
  • I am allergic to ponchiks, the sugar-powdered Polish fritters that Ghaemi’s mother used to make.2002, Viken Berberian, chapter 2, in The Cyclist: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, published 2003, →ISBN, page 169:
  • Dorothy had a ham sandwich followed by a ponchik, a doughnut.2009, Patrick M.R. Gibson, “Journey to Apsheronsk, June 1909”, in An Intrepid Woman: The Odyssey of Dorothy McLorn, Leicester, Leics....

Forms of ponchik

pluralponchiks
pluralponchiki

Origin of ponchik

From Russian по́нчик (pónčik) or Yiddish פּאָנטשיק (pontshik). Doublet of pączek.

Questions about ponchik

What does ponchik mean?
Ponchik means a type of fried dough pastry popular in many Central Asian and Eastern European countries, made by deep-frying dough until it becomes puffy, then filling it with custard, jam, or cream, and sometimes glazing the result or dusting it with powdered sugar.
How do you use ponchik in a sentence?
Thousands settled in Brighton Beach where the street vendors sell knish-like potato ponchiks and caviar.
What part of speech is ponchik?
Ponchik is a noun.
What is the plural of ponchik?
The plural of ponchik is ponchiks.

Words near ponchik in the dictionary

  1. Poncelet wheel
  2. Poncelet wheels
  3. poncelets
  4. ponces
  5. poncey
  6. ponchik
  7. ponchiki
  8. ponchiks
  9. poncho
  10. poncho liner
  11. poncho liners

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