fartsovshchik

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noun

A person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.

OriginRussian фарцо́вщик →
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Meanings

nounfartsovshchik (plural fartsovshchiks)

plural fartsovshchiks

  1. A person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.

    Locate a potential fartsovshchik – anyone under forty with a modicum of dress sense. […] Express yourself in a pronounced American accent: no black marketeer worth his salt wants to encumber himself with slumping pounds sterling.

    1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Russianфарцо́вщик
  2. Englishfartsovshchik

From Russian фарцо́вщик (farcóvščik).

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APA

fartsovshchik. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fartsovshchik

MLA

“fartsovshchik.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fartsovshchik. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fartsovshchik,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fartsovshchik.

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