Russki
Americannoun
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Russkies,
plural
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Russkis
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Russki
1855–60; < Russian rússkiĭ (noun and adj.) Russian
Example Sentences
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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.
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The Razvyet had ceased to appear in 1883, and the Russki Yevrey in 1884.
From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by I. Friedlaender
For the Russians a special prevaricating sheet, called the Russki Visnik, is issued.
From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by D. Thomas Curtin
The third week in October the engineers saw the Russki sleighs running about, but then came an Indian Summer-like period.
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
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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.
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I'm in favor of sending Ricky to sit in at conference with the Russkies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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
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
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