muzhik

American  

[moo-zhik, moo-zhik] / muˈʒɪk, ˈmu ʒɪk /

Or moujik,

noun

1. a Russian peasant.

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muzhik British  

/ ˈmuːʒɪk /

noun

1. a Russian peasant, esp under the tsars

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Etymology

Origin of muzhik

First recorded in 1560–70; from Russian muzhík, equivalent to muzh “husband, man” ( Old Church Slavonic mǫžĭ, akin to man ) + -ik diminutive suffix

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Example Sentences

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muzhik

He is a true man of the people -- a real muzhik, as the Russians say -- who works in his own garden and loves to eat herring with boiled potatoes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently and methodically he polished the rough muzhik regiments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their ideas, the ideas of the masters, are unintelligible to me, a muzhik.

From Mother by Maksim Gorky

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