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mujik

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Russian мужи́к (mužík, peasant).

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    Noun

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    mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)

    1. A Russian (male) peasant. [from 16th c.]
      • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 361:
        Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.
      • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
        [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.

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    Portuguese

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    Noun

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    mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)

    1. mujik (male peasant in Russia)

    Spanish

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    Noun

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    mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)

    1. mujik

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