kopeyka

English

Noun

kopeyka (plural kopeykas or kopeyki)

1. Alternative spelling of kopeika (“kopek”).
   • 1994 spring, Shofar, volume 12, number 3, page 90:

     Was it not worth those few kopeyki it had cost him?

   • 1996, Morris Rowe, “Immigrant”, in Barnabe Mountain Review, number 2, →ISSN, page 191:

     I’d watch my Kopeyki / But spend too much for a coat

   • 1997, Felix Gryff, Red Hell, Bib ID 3033350, page 150:

     The amount of work required to earn 26 roubles 40 kopeyki was one and a half times more than the physical possibilities of a healthy workman would allow in one day.

   • 2023, Nicholas Kinloch, From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper’s Epic Wartime Journey, Pen & Sword Military, →ISBN:

     Staszek, can you lend me some money? It’s just a small amount Staszek. A small insignificant number of roubles and kopeyki.