tchinovnik

plural tchinovniks

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of chinovnik

   As to the elderly tchinovniks, their nightly occupation (not infrequently their daily occupation too) was card-playing.

   1965, Julius H. Block, Mortals and Immortals, Edison, Nikisch, Tchaikofsky, Tolstoy: Episodes Under Three Tzars, page 99

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   As all his life is passed from his most tender youth upward in offices, amidst heaps of scribbled papers, in complete isolation from any touch with real life, the tchinovnik understands nothing, has faith in nothing but these papers.

   1888, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Krachinskiĭ, The Russian Peasantry, Their Agrarian Conditions, Social Life, and Religion, page 155

   Let them get rid of their tyrant, and of the tchinovnik jacks-in-office who do his work, and set our own people free before we talk about crusades to liberate the Bulgarians.

   1972, David Garnett, The Sons of the Falcon, page 274