Russki

English

Alternative forms

• Rusky, Ruskie

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Russian”). First attested in 1858.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌs.ki/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹus.ki/
• Rhymes: -ʌski

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Adjective

Russki (comparative more Russki, superlative most Russki)

1. (usually derogatory, colloquial) Russian.

Noun

Russki (plural Russkis or Russkies)

1. (usually derogatory, colloquial, ethnic slur) Russian.
   • 1960 December, Dallas McCord Reynolds, “I'm a Stranger Here Myself”, in Amazing Stories‎^[1]:

     I scanned the front page. "The Russkies have put up another manned satellite."
     "They have, eh? How big?"
     "Several times bigger than anything we Americans have."

Synonyms

• katsap (Ukrainian context)

Translations

alternative term for Russian (derogatory)

• Belarusian: маска́ль (be) m (maskálʹ), маска́лька f (maskálʹka), каца́п m (kacáp)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (pejorative) 老毛子 (Lǎomáozi), 毛子 (zh) (Máozi)

• Czech: Rusák (cs) m
• Esperanto: rusaĉo
• Estonian: tibla (et), tiblad (et) pl
• Finnish: ryssä (fi), iivana (fi), kaalineekeri, vanja (fi), slobo (fi), moskoviitti (fi), vinkkelitossu (fi), (feminine) venakko (fi)
• French: ruskov (fr), russkoff (fr), russkof, ruskoff (fr), ruskof, Popov (fr)
• German: Russki (de) m, Iwan (de) m, Russacke (de) m
• Hungarian: ruszki (hu)
• Japanese: (pejorative) 露助 (ja) (ろすけ, Rosuke), ロスケ (Rosuke)
• Kazakh: аққұлақ (aqqūlaq)
• Kyrgyz: жумбаш (jumbaş)
• Polish: kacap (pl) m, kacapka (pl) f, Moskal (pl) m Ruski (pl) m, Ruska (pl) f, Rusek (pl) m
• Romanian: rusnac m, rusnacă f
• Russian: (self-derogatory) руса́к (ru) m (rusák), каца́п (ru) m (kacáp), каца́пка (ru) f (kacápka) (from Ukrainian), моска́ль (ru) m (moskálʹ), моска́лька f (moskálʹka) (from Ukrainian), русня́ (ru) f (rusnjá) (collective)
• Serbo-Croatian: Руја m, Ruja m
• Ukrainian: каца́п (uk) m (kacáp), каца́пка f (kacápka), моска́ль (uk) m (moskálʹ), моска́лька f (moskálʹka), ру́скій (rúskij)

References

• “Russki”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “Russki” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Russki”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.