pączki

See also: paczki

English

Noun

pączki (plural pączki or pączkis)

1. Alternative spelling of paczki.
   • 1996, Sarmatian Review, page 405, column 2:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

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

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

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

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

   • 2020, Jim Wasowski, Connie Friess, Don’t Tell a Soul, Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

     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, Alesia Montgomery, Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:

     On Fat Tuesday there were pączkis.

   • 2022, Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us, Convergent Books, →ISBN, page 18:

     I’m at the bakery on the Boulevard, pinching powdered pączkis.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔnt͡ʂ.ki/

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• Rhymes: -ɔnt͡ʂki
• Syllabification: pącz‧ki

Noun

pączki m inan pl

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pączek