sushka
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A traditional Eastern European small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread ring eaten for dessert, usually with tea or coffee.
Example Sentences
- "Нас было двадцать шесть человек — двадцать шесть живых машин, запертых в сыром подвале, где мы с утра до вечера месили тесто, делая крендели и сушки."
- "And after all, for beer we require traditional snacks: Caspian roaches, crawfish, hard-boiled eggs, not to mention peas, sushkas, black zwiebacks..."
- "Soviet sorts of baranka-type articles, such as sushkas, can be kept for many months without going stale."
- "Some of the sushkas, which are thin dry rings of dough were even named after famous writers and poets who showed a predilection for them. There were vanilla sushkas named after Pushkin, sushkas made with mustard oil named after Lermontov, sushkas with poppy seeds that bore the name of Chekhov and salt ones that were liked by Yesenin."
- "Beer took up most of the small space, but they also had cold cuts—that must have been the source of the smell—and, more important, what I was looking for: sushki. These were round, crunchy, slightly sweet bread rings. Because they were a little sweet you could have them with tea, but because they weren’t too sweet you could also have them with beer. I bought two packets, one with poppy seeds, one without. Unlike everything else in the new Russia, sushki were still cheap."
- "He dropped the sack of flour next to the table and went to inspect the tray of hot sushki. […] Alexey lowered the knife and placed two sushki on a porcelain plate, which he set in front of Lulu."
Etymology
From Russian су́шка (súška).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: су́шка