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Russian
Etymology
Most likely borrowed from Old Church Slavonic пронꙑръ (pronyrŭ).
Pronunciation
Noun
проны́ра • (pronýra) m anim or f anim (genitive проны́ры, nominative plural проны́ры, genitive plural проны́р)
- slicker
1973, Михаил Булгаков , “Глава XXII. При свечах”, in Мастер и Маргарита; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Master and Margarita, London: Penguin Books, 1997:Вот-с, како́в проны́ра, а вы изво́лите толкова́ть про пя́тое измере́ние.
Маргари́та, хоть и не толкова́ла во́все про пя́тое измере́ние, а толкова́л о нём сам Коро́вьев, ве́село рассмея́лась, прослу́шав расска́з о похожде́ниях кварти́рного проны́ры.- Vot-s, kakóv pronýra, a vy izvólite tolkovátʹ pro pjátoje izmerénije.
Margaríta, xotʹ i ne tolkovála vóvse pro pjátoje izmerénije, a tolkovál o njom sam Koróvʹjev, véselo rassmejálasʹ, proslúšav rasskáz o poxoždénijax kvartírnovo pronýry. - '<...>A real slicker, you see, ma’am, and you keep talking about the fifth dimension!’
Though she had never talked about the fifth dimension, and it was Koroviev himself who kept talking about it, Margarita laughed gaily, hearing the story of the adventures of the apartment slicker.
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