muzhik
Americannoun
noun
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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Short-story fans and admirers of Anton Chekhov should be as happy these days as a muzhik over a bowl of borsch.
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Gone is the obsequious muzhik whose manners were formed by centuries of serfdom.
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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.
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Xikita Khrushchev, the muzhik with the mostest. was acting like a champion who has dusted off the challenger.
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In another story a muzhik is falsely accused of murder and accepts his undeserved punishment in a devout spirit of non-resistance.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
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