ощупать

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Russian

Etymology

о- (o-) +‎ щу́пать (ščúpatʹ)

Pronunciation

Verb

ощу́пать (oščúpatʹpf (imperfective ощу́пывать)

  1. to feel (with fingers)
    • 1973, Венедикт Ерофеев, “Москва — Серп и Молот”, in Москва — Петушки; English translation from H. William Tjalsma, transl., Moscow to the End of the Line, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1980:
      Я вынул из чемоданчика всё, что имею, и всё ощупал: от бутерброда до розового крепкого за рупь тридцать семь.
      Ja vynul iz čemodančika vsjo, što imeju, i vsjo oščupal: ot buterbroda do rozovovo krepkovo za rupʹ tridcatʹ semʹ.
      I took everything I had out of the suitcase and fingered it, from the sandwich to the stout rosé at a ruble thirty-seven.

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