проныра

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проны́ра (pronýram anim or f anim (genitive проны́ры, nominative plural проны́ры, genitive plural проны́р)

  1. 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, каков проныра, а вы изволите толковать про пятое измерение.
      Маргарита, хоть и не толковала вовсе про пятое измерение, а толковал о нём сам Коровьев, весело рассмеялась, прослушав рассказ о похождениях квартирного проныры.
      Vot-s, kakov pronyra, a vy izvolite tolkovatʹ pro pjatoje izmerenije.
      Margarita, xotʹ i ne tolkovala vovse pro pjatoje izmerenije, a tolkoval o njom sam Korovʹjev, veselo rassmejalasʹ, proslušav rasskaz o poxoždenijax kvartirnovo pronyry.
      '<...>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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