haluski

See also: hałuski

English

Haluski with bacon

Alternative forms

• halushki, halushky, haluskies, haluskis, halusky, halušky

Etymology

From Czech halušky, Polish hałuski, Slovak halušky, Ukrainian галу́шки (halúšky).

Noun

haluski pl (plural only)

1. A traditional variety of thick, soft noodles or dumplings found in many Central and Eastern European cuisines.
   • 1996, Craig Kennedy, Pennsylvania Fairs and Country Festivals, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 73:

     Kay bought two bowls of haluski—or cabbages and noodles—a festival staple in western Pennsylvania.

   • 2009, Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America’s Finest and Funkiest Joints, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 74:

     Stir in the crumbled bacon, the noodles, the remaining garlic salt, and the pepper, and let the haluski cook for 5 more minutes or so.

   • 2009, Brian O’Neill, The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Carnegie Mellon University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     The church is only a few miles down and across the Ohio from our house, but rarely have I remembered to drive there on Friday mornings, or to swing across the street for the haluski that came from heaven by way of the St. John the Baptist Ukranian^[sic] Catholic Church. (Fridays were once more competitive than Sundays on Olivia Street, but I hear St. John’s no longer has the people for haluski.)

   • 2009, Fran Cirbo, Working the Land: Building a Life, [Denver, Colo.]: FELLTTA Books, →ISBN, page 69:

     If the water wasn’t boiling hard enough the haluski sank to the bottom and stuck.

   • 2013, Laura Hemphill, Buying In, Boston, Mass.: New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 71:

     He imagined a dot marking Olbinski’s, where he’d taken Trish Jaskula on their second date because she said the haluski was just like her grandma’s.

   • 2017, Stephen King, Owen King, Sleeping Beauties, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 464:

     Don had the Haluski Special and it had arrived swimming in a pool of yellow grease.

Further reading

• halušky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech halušky.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaˈlus.ki/
• Rhymes: -uski
• Syllabification: ha‧lus‧ki

Noun

haluski nvir pl

1. Alternative form of hałuski

Declension

Declension of haluski

	plural
nominative	haluski
genitive	halusek
dative	haluskom
accusative	haluski
instrumental	haluskami
locative	haluskach
vocative	haluski

Further reading

• haluski in Polish dictionaries at PWN