mujik

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English

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Etymology

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From Russian мужи́к (mužík, peasant).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)

  1. A Russian (male) peasant. [from 16th c.]
    • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 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.

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Portuguese

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Noun

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mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)

  1. mujik (male peasant in Russia)

Spanish

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Noun

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mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)

  1. mujik

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