devotchka

plural devotchkas · alternative devochka

1. rareA girl, especially one of Russian descent.

   His arm wrapped her shoulders, and he dropped a kiss on her head. "Come on, devotchka. I'm taking you home."

   1984, Möeth Allison, Russian Roulette, →ISBN, page 115

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   This evening in the Korova there was a fair number of vecks and ptitsas and devotchkas and malchicks smecking and peeting away, and cutting through their govoreeting and the burbling of the in-the-landers with their 'Gorgor fallatuke and the worm sprays in filltip slaughterballs' and all that cal you could slooshy a popdisc on the stereo, this being Ned Achimota singing 'That Day, Yeah, That Day'.

   1962, Anthony Burgess, edited by Mark Rawlison, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2011, →ISBN, page 115

   Meanwhile, three churlish mops stroke their cheeks at the top of the stairs as if to remind the first guest that they are truly the rosy-cheeked devotchkas of yore.

   2001, Dimitri Anastasopoulos, A Larger Sense of Harvey: A Novel, page 261

   “Comrade Golovkin,” he said. “It is a terrible afternoon, devotchka. May I offer you a ride back to the Kremlin?”

   2014, Paul Dowswell, Red Shadow, →ISBN, page 63