Meanings
- uncountableA simple Polish dumpling (a kluski) made with farmer cheese or quark.
I decided to throw together some leniwe as a simple supper but when she asked if I could top them with fried sauerkraut the whole affair became less lazy and more high-effort.
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"What will you have, madam?" / "Leniwe, please. But no jam." / "Excellent choice. [as a thought:] Jam is the whole point of leniwe!"
2013, Rutu Modan, translated by Jessica Cohen, The Property, Drawn & Quarterly, →ISBN, page 52"When I was growing up, my parents threw me into swim practice and I swam every day. I would come home with chlorine in my hair — my hair super crispy ... freezing cold. And when I saw this platter of these leniwe with bread crumbs and sugar, I knew that meant that my parents were going out that night, and I got to have dessert for dinner," says Porowski.
2021 September 15, Laura Brehaut, “Cook this: Lazy pierogies with wild mushrooms, cabbage and prunes from Let's Do Dinner”, in National PostBiting into leniwe and hearing the crunch is my favorite moment.
2023, Michał Korkosz, Polish'd: Modern Vegetarian Cooking from Global Poland, The Experiment, →ISBN, page 144
Origin
- Polishleniwe
- Englishleniwe
Borrowed from Polish leniwe (literally “lazy”) as a clipped form of the dishes pierogi leniwe and kluski leniwe.
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leniwe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leniwe
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