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blintsi en · NOUN

Etymology

From Russian блинцы́ (blincý), plural of блине́ц (blinéc).

Meanings

1. (plural, plural-only) A type of flat pancakes made from very thin batter.
   • At 12:30, there’s a blintsi brunch, and at 2 p.m. the concert performances begin. 2022 May 19, Greg Nesteroff, “Doukhobor spring festival celebrates 75 years”, in West Kootenay Advertiser, Cranbrook, B.C.: Black Press, →OCLC, page A2, column 5:
   • UKRAINIAN FALL FESTIVAL, […] Includes […] a food court (eat-in or take-out) with varenyky, kapusta, kovbasa, holubsti, blintsi and baked goods; […] 2006 September 27, “Guide to fall festivals”, in Courier News, Bridgewater, N.J., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E-5, column 1:
   • Apart from recipes and culinary advice, the book [Please to the Table] is stuffed, like blintsi with meat, with various information about customs, traditions and festivals of the peoples of the former Soviet Union. These informative blintsi are served with the dressing of numerous quotations from Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Pushkin and other Russian classics. 1991 December 17, Vitali Vitaliev, “Lenin leaves behind an empty larder”, in The Age, 138th year, number 42,603, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 4:
   • Whenever the family visited there was always borcht, lapshevnik, pirrahi, fresh garden salads, fruit from their trees and one of our favorite breakfasts, blintsi. 2018 August 9, “Molly Bonderoff: July 22, 2018”, in Castlegar News, volume 15, number 32, Castlegar, B.C.: Black Press, →OCLC, page A16, column 2:
   • A lot of our own traditional food is served and this is what I would choose to have. I don't mind any other Canadian food, but I'd still like to have some of our good old borshch, pirogi and many other things that our people are making. They're so delicious and good to have once in awhile;^([sic]) also lapshevnik, lapsha, vareniki and blintsi. 1975 August 22, Koozma J. Tarasoff, quoting a farmer in northeast Saskatchewan, “Borshch, pirogi...and corn flakes”, in Traditional Doukhobor Folkways: An Ethnographic and Biographic Record of Prescribed Behaviour (National Museum of Man Mercury Series; Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Paper No. 20), Ottawa, Ont.: National Museums of Canada, published 1977, →OCLC, chapter VI […], page 122:

Forms

Relateds

blini · blintz · blinchik