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‖ moujik, muzhik Now Hist. (ˈmuːʒɪk, ‖ muˈʒik) Forms: 6 musick, mousike, 6–7 mousick, 8 mugike, 9 mougik, -jik, muzhik, mooshik, -zheek; mouzhik, 9– mujik. [Russ. muzhik peasant.] 1. A Russian peasant.
1568Turberv. Trag. T., etc. (1587) 184 One [licour] called Kuas, whereby the Musick liues. 1591G. Fletcher Russe Commw. (Hakl. Soc.) 12 The marchants and mousicks..are very much discouraged by..exactions. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 548 The mugikes, or serfs. 1833R. Pinkerton Russia 352 Set a mujik at your table, he will soon lay up his legs on it. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid xxxii, His mougik still wore his sheep-skin wrapped close round his chin. 1877D. M. Wallace Russia xxvi. (ed. 2) II. 151 There stood the patient bearded muzhik (peasant) in his well-worn sheep-skins. 1892Daily News 26 Jan. 6/2 All the mooshiks without exception are workmen. 1934Discovery Dec. 364/2 The mujiks know that Lenin hath given, but Stalin hath taken away. 1949I. Deutscher Stalin iii. 67 Eight or nine soldiers out of ten were mouzhiks. 1961Observer 10 Dec. 7/2 The most fascinating Khrushchev of all is the high-powered mouzhik, the super kulak. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 216 He began dabbling in propaganda by conversing with mujiks. 2. (In full moujik blouse, moujik coat). A loose fur cape for ladies' wear.
1897Westm. Gaz. 30 Sept. 3/2 This moujik coat..is..now too popular. 1901Ibid. 4 July 3/1 The moujik, that little blouse coat, cut low in the neck and with open fronts [etc.]. |