mujik
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmuː(d)ʒɪk/, /muːˈʒiːk/
Noun
mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)
- A peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia. [from 16th c.]
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 361:
- Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.
- 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
- [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 361:
Translations
Russian peasant
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