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单词 nagaika
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nagaikan.

Brit. /nəˈɡʌɪkə/, U.S. /nəˈɡaɪkə/
Inflections: Plural nagaikas, nagaiki Brit. /nəˈɡʌɪki/, U.S. /nəˈɡɑɪki/.
Forms: 1800s– nagaika, 1900s– nogaika.
Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian nagajka.
Etymology: < Russian nagajka Nogai whip (1780 or earlier) < †nagaj , obsolete form of nogaj Nogai n. + -ka, feminine suffix forming nouns and diminutives.The Russian word nagajka , lit. ‘thing used by the Nogay’, implies a longer form nagajskaja plet′ ( < †nagajskaja (feminine) of the Nogay + plet′ whip); compare Nogai adj. and n.
A short, thick, plaited leather whip, probably of Nogai origin, traditionally used in Russia (esp. by Cossacks).
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
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1842 tr. J. G. Kohl Russia 410 The genuine Cossack of the steppe..depends only on his well plaited nagaika or whip, with which he rarely fails to cut down a wolf, as with a sabre.
1894 Harper's New Monthly Mag. 89 932 The one implement, as peculiar to the Cossack as the lasso to the cowboy, is the nagaika, or knout, a whip with a short thick handle and heavy lash, which is used instead of spurs.
1914 N. Jarintzoff Russia: Country of Extremes vii. 202 The nagaiki flashed in the air, heavily lashing people's faces.
1917 Daily Chron. 22 June 1/4 The Cossacks..drove off the agitators from the station with their nagaikas.
1931 E. Goldman Living my Life II. lii. 803 Nothing has changed... It was the Cossack and the nagaika before, the Chekists and shooting now.
a1988 R. Conquest Eye of Storm in New & Coll. Poems (1988) 179 It blasts through closed eyelids. Nagaikas of lightning Lash at a bared heart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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