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Russian
Pronunciation
Noun
пустосло́в • (pustoslóv) m anim (genitive пустосло́ва, nominative plural пустосло́вы, genitive plural пустосло́вов)
- prattler
1880, Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин , “Семейные итоги”, in Господа Головлёвы; English translation from I. P. Foote, transl., The Golovlevs, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986:Ита́к, Иу́душка не сто́лько лицеме́р, ско́лько па́костник, лгун и пустосло́в.- Iták, Iúduška ne stólʹko licemér, skólʹko pákostnik, lgun i pustoslóv.
- Judas is, therefore, not so much a hypocrite as a sneaking scoundrel, a liar, and a prattler.
Declension