shashlik

plural shashliks · plural shashliki · alternative shashlick · alternative shashlyk · alternative shaslik

1. countableuncountableA form of shish kebab, originally made of marinated lamb meat.

   Some, having lighted a fire on the ground, cook (some) food, roast (some) shashliki.

   1987, William R. Schmalstieg, “The Adverbal Genitive Case”, in A Lithuanian Historical Syntax, Columbus, Oh.: Slavica Publishers, Inc., published 1988, →ISBN, page 167

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   Men entered the room bearing skewers of tikas—kebabs or shashliki, we would call them—spitted chunks of lamb that had been roasted with onions and other seasoning.

   1958 May, Christopher Rand, “Journey Through the Khyber Pass”, in Ted Patrick, editor, Holiday, volume 23, number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, page 158, column 2

   Everyone went to the Pump Room where the children would be entertained by the Nubian Slaves with flaming skewers of shashlik, while their parents talked to Irving Kupcinet, the Eiffel Tower of Chicago columnists.

   1963, Jill Schary Zimmer, “Where the Summer People Go in Summer”, in With a Cast of Thousands: A Hollywood Childhood, New York, N.Y.: Stein and Day, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 159

   Borshch is unknown in the Caucasus, the home of shashlik, and even the way of making shashlik varies from one valley to another in the three Caucasian republics, Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaidzhan.

   1967, Barbara Norman, “The Ten Cuisines of Russia”, in The Russian Cookbook […], New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4

   They swam and fished by day, they drank wine and grilled shashliki in the evenings, and sometimes they drove into Yalta to enjoy the night-life, but throughout it all Minka remained detached, like a convalescent.

   1986, Richard Collins, chapter 27, in Minka, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, →ISBN, page 182

   You may well have heard of some of the national dishes of the Soviet Union, such as Borsch (beetroot soup), Bliny (pancakes), Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Kiev and Shashliki (Georgian kebabs).

   1989, Nuffield/Schools Council Russian Teachers’ Association, “Unit 8: Celebrations”, in Iskra 2, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes, published 1990, →ISBN, page 146