vushka
vushka noun: small dumplings from Ukrainian cuisine, typically filled with mushrooms and served in borshch at Christmas Eve dinner.
Noun
vushka pl (normally plural, singular vushko)
- Small dumplings from Ukrainian cuisine, typically filled with mushrooms and served in borshch at Christmas Eve dinner.
- Vushka (Tiny Dumplings) (Вушка) Vushka are tiny varenyky about the size of a walnut, having their two corners joined together. This particular shape gives them a peculiar resemblance to tiny ears from which the name “vushka” is derived.1957, Savella Stechishin, Traditional Ukrainian Cookery, Winnipeg: Trident Press, published 1980, page 210
- Next came borsch with small pieces of triangular-shaped dough called vushka floating in the soup bowls.1978, Marguerite V. Burke, The Ukrainian Canadians, Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, page 48
Examples of vushka in a sentence
- An excellent accompaniment to borsch or broth is Vushka (little ears) which are tiny dumpling about the size of walnuts and filled with various kinds of fillings for example, meat or mushrooms.1979, Carole Eberly, Our Michigan: Ethnic Tales & Recipes, Shoestring Press, →ISBN, page 151:
- In this connection it is interesting to note that miniature varenyky are made as a condiment for borsch at such special occasions as Christmas; these are called vushka (“little ears”).1985, Robert Klymasz, “Male and Female Principles as Structure in the Ritual Foodways of Ukrainians in Canada”, in Journal of Ukrainian...
- He ordered some stuff called Rosolnyk and Vushka and something else called Varenyky?2011, Fitzgerald Jones, Cold Call, Baltimore: Publish America, →ISBN:
Forms of vushka
| singular | vushko |
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Origin of vushka
From Ukrainian ву́шка (vúška), plural of ву́шко (vúško, “little ear”), diminutive of ву́хо (vúxo, “ear”).
Questions about vushka
- What does vushka mean?
- Vushka means small dumplings from Ukrainian cuisine, typically filled with mushrooms and served in borshch at Christmas Eve dinner.
- How do you use vushka in a sentence?
- An excellent accompaniment to borsch or broth is Vushka (little ears) which are tiny dumpling about the size of walnuts and filled with various kinds of fillings for example, meat or mushrooms.
- What part of speech is vushka?
- Vushka is a noun.
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