paczki
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.
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.