ushkuinik

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noun

A medieval Novgorodian pirate who led a life similar to that of a Viking.

OriginRussian ушку́йник →
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Meanings

nounushkuinik (plural ushkuiniks)

plural ushkuiniks

  1. A medieval Novgorodian pirate who led a life similar to that of a Viking.

    Vasily tells his mother that he wants to travel to Jerusalem because the time has come for him to repent his earlier misdeeds, possibly an allusion to a life of fighting, killing, and robbery as a Viking-like ushkuinik.

    1998, James Bailey, Anthology Russian Folk Epics, M.E. Sharpe, page 319

Origin

  1. Russianушку́йник
  2. Englishushkuinik

Borrowed from Russian ушку́йник (uškújnik).

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