Russki
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Russian”). First attested in 1858.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹʌs.ki/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹus.ki/
- Rhymes: -ʌski
Adjective
Russki (comparative more Russki, superlative most Russki)
- (usually derogatory, colloquial) Russian.
Noun
Russki (plural Russkis or Russkies)
- (usually derogatory, colloquial, ethnic slur) A 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
Translations
alternative term for Russian (derogatory)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: маска́ль (be) m (maskálʹ), маска́лька f (maskálʹka), каца́п m (kacáp)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (pejorative) 老毛子 (zh) (Lǎomáozi), 毛子 (zh) (Máozi)
- Czech: Rusák (cs) m
- Esperanto: rusaĉo
- Estonian: tibla (et), venku (et), sibul (et), russ, vasja, iivan, vanka, vant (et), rüssa
- 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)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- 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: (pejorative) аққұлақ (aqqūlaq, literally “weasel”), орекең (orekeñ)
- Kyrgyz: жумбаш (jumbaş), жүнбаш (jünbaş)
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- 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), бутылкоприседалец (butylkoprisedalec)
- Serbo-Croatian: Руја m, Ruja m
- Ukrainian: каца́п (uk) m (kacáp), каца́пка f (kacápka), моска́ль (uk) m (moskálʹ), моска́лька f (moskálʹka), ру́скій (rúskij), русня́ f (rusnjá)
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References
- “Russki”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Elizabeth J. Jewell, Frank Abate, Erin McKean, editors (2005), “Russki”, in The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “Russki”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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