переполох

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Noun

переполо́х (perepolóxm inan (genitive переполо́ха, nominative plural переполо́хи, genitive plural переполо́хов)

  1. commotion, flurry, ado, stir, fuss
    подня́ть переполо́х
    podnjátʹ perepolóx
    cause a commotion/stir
    • 1886, Антон Чехов, Переполох; English translation from Constance Garnett, transl., An Upheaval, 1917:
      Ма́шенька Павле́цкая, моло́денькая, едва́ то́лько ко́нчившая курс институ́тка, верну́вшись с прогу́лки в дом Кушкиных, где она́ жила́ в гуверна́нтках, заста́ла необыкнове́нный переполо́х.
      Mášenʹka Pavléckaja, molódenʹkaja, jedvá tólʹko kónčivšaja kurs institútka, vernúvšisʹ s progúlki v dom Kuškinyx, gde oná žilá v guvernántkax, zastála neobyknovénnyj perepolóx.
      Mashenka Pavletsky, a young girl who had only just finished her studies at a boarding school, returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil.

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