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English
Etymology
From Polish pieróg. Doublet of pirog.
Noun
pieróg (plural pierogi)
- Rare form of pierogi.
2010 November 19, Victor Sack, “Pelmeni, perogie, peroshki...”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):That thing certainly does not look anything like a pieróg. To me, it looks like sliced boiled potato.
2014 April, Jenny Bowman, “Delicacy of the north: Pierogies, recently opened in Oak Island, dishes up Polish dumplings to perfection”, in Southport Magazine, volume two, number seven, page 14:So what is a pieróg, exactly? (Plural is pierogi or can be pierogies.) Well, it’s essentially a dough dumpling stuffed with savory goodness like potato and cheese or onion, hot sausage, or sauerkraut, to name a few fillings.
2018, Kaitlyn Cammer, “St. Volodymyr’s the Great Ukrainian Catholic Church”, in Utica Proud, volume one, page 30:Giving Back to the Community One Pieróg at a Time
2019 September, Geraldine Balut Coleman, “Tekla Klebetnica Thrills Crowds”, in Polish American Journal, volume 108, number 9, section “Celebrating Pierogi”, page 7, column 3:But there was also one pieróg version that did not win the popularity contest. It was called pizzowego (pizzarogis), a pieróg filled with a combination of sausage, pepperoni, and cheese, doused with tomato sauce.
2022 April 14, Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, “At this Ukrainian restaurant, dumplings go by many names, but always taste like home”, in The Arizona Republic:In the photo she's wearing a green floral headscarf and spooning cherry filling into a pieróg.
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish piróg, from Proto-Slavic *pirogъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
pieróg m inan (diminutive pierożek, related adjective pierogowy)
- dumpling (ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough)
- pierogi (square- or crescent-shaped Polish dumpling of unleavened dough, stuffed with sauerkraut, cheese, mashed potatoes, cabbage, onion, meat, or any combination of these, or with a fruit filling)
- pirog (baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe)
- (historical, military) bicorn (two-cornered hat worn by European and American military and naval officers from the 1790s)
- Synonym: bikorn
- (vulgar) vulva, pudenda (external female sex organs)
- Synonyms: pierożek, srom
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Further reading
- pieróg in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- pieróg in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- pieróg in PWN's encyclopedia