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Definition of Pirogi
1. Noun. Small fruit or meat turnover baked or fried.
Generic synonyms: Turnover
Geographical relationships: Russia, Soviet Union, Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ussr
Definition of Pirogi
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pierogi) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pirogi
1. pierogi [n -ES] - See also: pierogi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirogi
Literary usage of Pirogi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Prince Adam Czartoryski and His Correspondence with Alexander I by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Alexander, Adam Gielgud (1888)
"He once made a bet that he would eat an enormous dish of pirogi* alone, without
hurting ... He gained his bet, and drank some punch to wash the pirogi down. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"A couple of plain boiled eggs, a mouthful of your excellent home-cured ham, and
a few cheese pirogi are really all I require,—quite sufficient, ..."
3. The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast (1886)
"To drink there was the water of the Neva, not always over-clear, and quass, and
occasionally, on any special day, a bottle of port wine or of porter. pirogi ..."
4. Russia of the Russians by Harold Williams (1915)
"For special occasions the women bake pirogi or pasties filled with cabbage, more
rarely with rice, and still more rarely with meat. ..."
5. Poland: The Knight Among Nations by Louis E. Van Norman (1908)
"After the fish come conserved fruits, and then delicious little pirogi, a little
cake or dumpling that looks like a tiny loaf of rye bread, stuffed with ..."
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