проказничать

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Russian

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Etymology

прока́за (prokáza) +‎ -ничать (-ničatʹ)

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Verb

прока́зничать (prokázničatʹimpf (perfective напрока́зничать)

  1. to play pranks, to make mischief
    • 1831, Александр Пушкин [Alexander Pushkin], Барышня-крестьянка; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., The Young Lady Peasant, New York: Vintage Books, 2016:
      Промота́в в Москве́ бо́льшую часть име́ния своего́, и на ту по́ру овдове́в, уе́хал он в после́днюю свою́ дере́вню, где продолжа́л прока́зничать, но уже́ в но́вом ро́де.
      Promotáv v Moskvé bólʹšuju častʹ iménija svojevó, i na tu póru ovdovév, ujéxal on v poslédnjuju svojú derévnju, gde prodolžál prokázničatʹ, no užé v nóvom róde.
      Having squandered the greater part of his fortune in Moscow and become a widower at the same time, he left for the last of his holdings, where he went on playing pranks, but now of a different sort.
  2. to horse around

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