щеголять

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Russian

Etymology

щёголь (ščógolʹ) +‎ -я́ть (-játʹ)

Pronunciation

Verb

щеголя́ть (ščegoljátʹimpf (perfective щегольну́ть)

  1. (imperfective only) to dress like a dandy, to wear fancy clothes
  2. (colloquial) to flaunt, to show off
    • 1906, Александр Куприн, “3”, in Штабс-капитан Рыбников; English translation from John Middleton Murry, transl., Captain Ribnikov, 1916:
      «Э́то он, одна́ко, сде́лал оши́бку!» — поду́мал Щавинский, когда́ услы́шал его́ чте́ние, чрезвыча́йно пра́вильное, но деревя́нное, с преувели́ченно то́чным произноше́нием ка́ждой бу́квы, каки́м щеголя́ют пе́рвые ученики́, изуча́ющие чужо́й язы́к.
      «Éto on, odnáko, sdélal ošíbku!» — podúmal Ščavinskij, kogdá uslýšal jevó čténije, črezvyčájno právilʹnoje, no derevjánnoje, s preuvelíčenno tóčnym proiznošénijem káždoj búkvy, kakím ščegoljájut pérvyje učenikí, izučájuščije čužój jazýk.
      ‘He’s made a blunder now,’ Schavinsky thought, when he heard his extraordinary correct and wooden reading, each separate letter pronounced with exaggerated precision like the head boy in a French class showing off.
  3. (colloquial) to sport

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