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English
Pronunciation
Noun
kopeck (plural kopecks)
- Alternative spelling of kopek.
1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth:"They do not exceed it? Fie! Why, you are robbing your children of their last kopeck—you, their guardian!"
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka).
Pronunciation
Noun
kopeck m (plural kopecks)
- kopek
- (figuratively, chiefly in the negative) a wooden nickel or brass farthing, an iota
- Personne n’aurait misé un kopeck sur eux. ― Nobody would have bet a wooden nickel on them.
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