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Russian
Etymology
приказа́ть (prikazátʹ) + -щик (-ščik)
Pronunciation
Noun
прика́зчик • (prikázčik) m anim (genitive прика́зчика, nominative plural прика́зчики, genitive plural прика́зчиков)
- (historical) shop clerk, shop assistant, salesman (hired worker in a shop in pre-revolutionary Russia)
- прика́зчик в ла́вке ― prikázčik v lávke ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (historical) steward (managing landowner’s manor in pre-revolutionary Russia)
- ба́рский прика́зчик ― bárskij prikázčik ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
1779, Яков Княжнин [Yakov Knyazhnin], “Действие I. Явление VII”, in Несчастие от кареты; English translation from Misfortune from a Carriage, (Please provide a date or year):Вели́ко де́ло, ведь прика́зчик он!
Вели́ко ль де́ло, что прика́зчик он!- Velíko délo, vedʹ prikázčik on!
Velíko lʹ délo, što prikázčik on! - (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figuratively, dated) someone who blindly follows and obeys his master
Declension
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