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- Russian · borrowed fromмиря́чить
- English todaymiryachit
Borrowed from Russian миря́чить (mirjáčitʹ), меря́чить (merjáčitʹ) or эмиря́чить (emirjáčitʹ, “to suffer from a special nervous disorder”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
miryachit
Today it means: A nervous disorder said to have been encountered in Siberia, characterized by a jumping tic and the involuntary imitation of the words and actions of other people. Full definition →
Russian миря́чить