Russki

American  

[ruhs-kee, roos-, roo-skee] / ˈrʌs ki, ˈrʊs-, ˈru ski /

Or Russkie,

noun

Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.

• Russkies,
  plural
• Russkis
  plural

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Russian.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Russkies
  plural
• Russkis
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Russki

1855–60; < Russian rússkiĭ (noun and adj.) Russian

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Russki Russkies Russkis

Eric Frenzel of Germany celebrated winning the Nordic combined individual competition at the Russki Gorki Center on Feb. 12.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2014

A burgeoning fleet of privately owned automobiles now dominates yellow-tiled Russki Boulevard, having driven into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was bête enough to write an article in the Russki Mir—the mildest of articles.

From Doctor Claudius, A True Story by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Bush and I discussed the question all night beside our lonely camp-fire under the Russki Krebet, but could come to no decision, and after sleeping three or four hours we started for Anadyrsk.

From Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

All night long the two troop trains rattled along the Russki railway or stood interminably at strange-looking stations.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns

One for me, one for my brother, who is just barely old enough to remember Mike Eruzione and the gang defeating the Russkies in hockey at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2012

But you sure remember that, earlier, they beat the Russkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the opening Area 51 scene, he uses it to disarm about a quillion Russkies, and to swing in Errol Flynn style from one warehoused beam to another.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm in favor of sending Ricky to sit in at conference with the Russkies.

From Time Magazine Archive

They think it's fouling up the country and that eventually it'll result in the Russkies passing us in all the fields that really count.”

From Status Quo by Mack Reynolds

Because there were so many Russians in the area nobody bothered much about “Spyville,” he said, “Everybody knew it was the Russkis and that was it.”

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

British, French and Americans thought he was letting the Russkis slip something over on the whole Allied expedition.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns

Rumor at the base always magnified the action at the front and always fancied riot and uprising in every group of gesticulating Russkis seen at a dusky corner of the city.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns