muzhik
or mou·jik, mu·jik, mu·zjik
[moo-zhik, moo-zhik]
Origin of muzhik
1560–70; < Russian muzhík, equivalent to muzh husband, man (OCS mǫžĭ, akin to man1) + -ik diminutive suffix
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Historical Examples of muzhik
The Muzhik in the doorway of the hut stood bowing to the ground.
This is the land where a muzhik is as good as a prince of the blood!
It is the country where a muzhik is as good as a prince of the blood!
The fool went to wash himself, and behind him came the muzhik with the straw.
Russian Fairy TalesR. Nisbet Bain
Their ideas, the ideas of the masters, are unintelligible to me, a muzhik.
MotherMaksim Gorky
muzhik
moujik or mujik
Word Origin for muzhik
C16: from Russian: peasant
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