pączki

A form of paczki — A traditional Polish doughnut.

Meanings

nounpączki (plural pączki or pączkis)

plural pączkis

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of paczki.

    On Fat Tuesday there were pączkis.

    2020, Alesia Montgomery, Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN
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    It is reducible to babkas and pączkis and mazurkas (for Easter), the makowiec (for Christmas), szopkas and gróbs (for Christmas and Easter), and other customs whose content is barely perceived.

    1996, Sarmatian Review, page 405, column 2

    Also pączki are making a career among Polish-Americans. According to the Polish American Encyclopedia, in 2001 the sale of pączki totaled some $300 million nation-wide (Pula 2011, 350). Pączki Day is celebrated with pączki-eating contests, music and other Polish food.

    2016, Zdzisław Głębocki, “Longing for the Old Country: Polish-Americans and Nostalgia”, in Weronika Łaszkiewicz, Zbigniew Maszewski, Jacek Partyka, editors, Dwelling in Days Foregone: Nostalgia in American Literature and Culture, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 168

    They share advertising, confidential sources, and pączkis on Fat Tuesday.

    2017, Loren D. Estleman, The Lioness Is the Hunter, Forge, →ISBN, page 139

    BRIDGEPORT BAKERY is a long-standing, no-frills bakery highly sought for their bacon buns, pączkis, cakes, doughnuts, and cookies.

    2019, Soo Park, Chicago Food Crawls: Touring the Neighborhoods One Bite & Libation at a Time, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, page 6

    Stores popped up to bake the pączkis that were baked daily but enjoyed the most on Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, and on Dyngus Day, the day after Easter.

    2020, Jim Wasowski, Connie Friess, Don’t Tell a Soul, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
noun
  1. pluralplural of pączek
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