sooshka

plural sooshkas · plural sooshki

1. alternativeAlternative form of sushka.

   Field bread, bakers’ wares (sooshkas, bread sticks), flour

   1992, Oleg Vasilʹevich I͡Uferev, translated by Sergeĭ Alekseevich Ilʹinykh, Business Map of the USSR: Russia, the Central Region, →ISBN, page 288, column 1

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   [F]or evening tea - snack items, pastry, sooshka, jam, rolls and buns, fresh fruits, hot drinks.

   1968 November 12, D. Stroganov, V. Kozlov, Feeding Submarine Crews (Translation No. 2355), Frederick, Md.: Department of the Army, Fort Detrick, page 5

   Penetration of Russian traders into the Enisei North, opening of grain storages in the hamlets, resulted in introduction of some purchased foods into the aborigines” menu: flour, sooshkas (small ring-shaped crackers), tea and, less frequently, sugar.

   1970, Trudy VII Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa antropologicheskikh i ėtnograficheskikh nauk, volume X, page 342

   Next to me at a minus distance stands a country woman in a shawl and plush jacket. A string of sooshki hangs around her neck like an Olympic garland.

   1972, The Malahat Review, numbers 21–24, page 30

   Work is being completed on development of a line for the production of sooshkas [small ring-shaped cracker] at a capacity of 200 kilograms per hour.

   1984 April 12, O. D. Gavrikov, quotee, “Ministries React To Complaints About Bread Quality, Variety”, in USSR Report: Consumer Goods and Domestic Trade (JPRS-UCG-84-008), Foreign Broadcast Information Service, page 37

   When the secretary had brought in two cups of coffee and a plate of sooshki*, Pyotr Georgevich brought out a sheet of paper and began to sketch a figure on it.

   1987, Julian Semyonov [pseudonym; Yulian Semyonovich Lyandres], translated by Charles Buxton, “Konstantinov”, in TASS Is Authorized to Announce…, Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, →ISBN, pages 63 and 351