Feb. 20th, 2015

paczki

Feb. 20th, 2015 07:43 am
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paczki (PAWNCH-kee) - n., a Polish pastry similar to a doughnut, usually filled with fruit and topped with sugar or icing.


Deep-fried, but with a small amount of grain alcohol added just before to prevent so much oil from being absorbed as a traditional doughnut. From Polish pączki, the plural of pączek, the diminutive of pąk, bud -- but in English, we took the plural form as the singular, and pluralize it as paczkis. Go figure.

And that ends this stealth theme week of words beginning with P. A more random mix returns next week.

---L.

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