| 释义 |
‖ stukach, n. slang.|stuˈkatʃ|
Pl. stukachi.
[Russ. stukách, f. stuchát′, stúknut′, lit. ‘to knock’, but in slang use ‘to talk’ (cf. rap v.1 3 b) and hence among criminals ‘to inform or ‘squeal’’.]
In Russia: an informer; a ‘stool pigeon’.
1969Guardian Weekly 20 Dec. 8/4 The final unforgiveable accusation that any of Kuznetsov's former friends and colleagues can make against another of their fraternity is to say that he is a stukach—prison-camp slang for ‘Informer’. 1975L. & J. Schecter Amer. Family in Moscow iii. 62 The friends of the defendants were equally spirited in defense. They called their taunters stukachi (informers) and asked them if they really believed that the Soviet troops in Prague were providing fraternal aid. 1980N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Sept. 68/5 Seryozha..made a disgusted noise. ‘That guy! I know him. He's a stukach—a stoolie—and a provocateur. Everybody says he works straight out of Lubyanka.’ 1984Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 10/4 It is almost impossible for us to understand the importance in Communist life of the informer, the sneak, the stukach in Russian, who may be prepared to pass on anything he or she overhears you saying—at work, at school, even in the home. |