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Russian
Pronunciation
Verb
облапо́шить • (oblapóšitʹ) pf (imperfective облапо́шивать)
- (colloquial) to swindle, to cheat, to humbug
- Synonym: наду́ть (nadútʹ)
1869, Фёдор Достоевский [Fyodor Dostoevsky], “Часть II. Глава XII”, in Идиот; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., The Idiot, 1913:— Небо́сь он бы сам пришёл да на груди́ твое́й призна́лся в слеза́х! Эх ты, простофи́ля, простофи́ля! Все́-то тебя́ обма́нывают, как… как… И не сты́дно тебе́ ему́ доверя́ться? Неуже́ли ты не ви́дишь, что он тебя́ круго́м облапо́шил?- — Nebósʹ on by sam prišól da na grudí tvojéj priználsja v slezáx! Ex ty, prostofílja, prostofílja! Vsé-to tebjá obmányvajut, kak… kak… I ne stýdno tebé jemú doverjátʹsja? Neužéli ty ne vídišʹ, što on tebjá krugóm oblapóšil?
- “Oh, of course, yes; he would have come and wept out his secret on your bosom. Oh, you simpleton — you simpleton! Anyone can deceive you and take you in like a — like a, — aren’t you ashamed to trust him? Can’t you see that he humbugs you just as much as ever he pleases?”
Conjugation
Conjugation of облапо́шить (class 4a perfective transitive)