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pyshka

pyshka noun: a Russian variety of doughnut, either ring-shaped or without a hole.

Noun

pyshka (plural pyshki)

  1. A Russian variety of doughnut, either ring-shaped or without a hole.
    • On the corner by the beygal store is an old woman with a pyshka, collecting dowries for orphan girls in Jerusalem: […]1970, Avram Davidson, “Goslin Day”, in Damon Knight, editor, Orbit: An Anthology of New Science Fiction Stories, volume 6, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 76
    • A typical menu featured five or six varieties of oukha fish chowder with pies, all kinds of smoked and kippered sturgeon, and telnoe (fish fillets baked in the shape of a goose or lamb with many different spices and with special “lamb” flavor), not to mention pyshki (doughnuts), syrniki (curd...2010, “Patriarch’s Palace and Twelve Apostles’ Church”, in I. Yudakov, editor, Moscow Kremlin Red Square New Guide-Book, Moscow: Orthodox Society “Radonezh”, →ISBN, page 104, column 1

Forms of pyshka

pluralpyshki

Origin of pyshka

From Russian пы́шка (pýška).

Questions about pyshka

What does pyshka mean?
Pyshka means a Russian variety of doughnut, either ring-shaped or without a hole.
What part of speech is pyshka?
Pyshka is a noun.
What is the plural of pyshka?
The plural of pyshka is pyshki.

Words near pyshka in the dictionary

  1. pysanka
  2. pysankas
  3. pysanky
  4. Pysher
  5. Pyshers
  6. pyshka
  7. pyshki
  8. Pysht
  9. Pyskowice
  10. pysma
  11. pysmatic

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