mujik

plural mujiks · plural mujiki · alternative muzhik · alternative muzhyk · alternative muzjik · alternative moujik

1. A Russian (male) peasant.First known use 16th c.

   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.

   1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 361

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   [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.

   1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire