haluski

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See also: hałuski

English

Haluski with bacon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Czech halušky, Polish hałuski, Slovak halušky, Ukrainian галу́шки (halúšky).

Pronunciation

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Noun

haluski pl (plural only)

  1. A traditional variety of thick, soft noodles or dumplings found in many Central and Eastern European cuisines.
    • 1996, Craig Kennedy, Pennsylvania Fairs and Country Festivals, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 73:
      Kay bought two bowls of haluski—or cabbages and noodles—a festival staple in western Pennsylvania.
    • 2009, Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America’s Finest and Funkiest Joints, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 74:
      Stir in the crumbled bacon, the noodles, the remaining garlic salt, and the pepper, and let the haluski cook for 5 more minutes or so.
    • 2009, Brian O’Neill, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University Press, →ISBN, page 45:
      The church is only a few miles down and across the Ohio from our house, but rarely have I remembered to drive there on Friday mornings, or to swing across the street for the haluski that came from heaven by way of the St. John the Baptist Ukranian Catholic Church. (Fridays were once more competitive than Sundays on Olivia Street, but I hear St. John’s no longer has the people for haluski.)
    • 2009, Fran Cirbo, Working the Land: Building a Life, : FELLTTA Books, →ISBN, page 69:
      If the water wasn’t boiling hard enough the haluski sank to the bottom and stuck.
    • 2013, Laura Hemphill, Buying In, Boston, Mass.: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 71:
      He imagined a dot marking Olbinski’s, where he’d taken Trish Jaskula on their second date because she said the haluski was just like her grandma’s.
    • 2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 464:
      Don had the Haluski Special and it had arrived swimming in a pool of yellow grease.

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech halušky.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaˈlus.ki/
  • Rhymes: -uski
  • Syllabification: ha‧lus‧ki

Noun

haluski nvir pl

  1. Alternative form of hałuski

Declension

Further reading

  • haluski in Polish dictionaries at PWN