Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as muzhik.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917).

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  • noun A peasant, especially in pre-revolutionary (imperial) Russia.

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  • noun a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)

Etymologies

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From Russian мужик 'peasant'.

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Examples

  • The popular cries which madden other races are utterly meaningless to the docile, unemotional "mujik," loyal and conservative to the very marrow of his bones.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

  • Note: Note: [From Judy Boss] While I have let stand such variants as "mujik" and "moujik" or "Koondooz" and "Koundouze," I have made the following changes to the text:

    Michael Strogoff : or the Courier of the Czar 1911

  • In buying him at Omsk he had been lucky, and in taking him to the postmaster the generous mujik had rendered him a great service.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • He either put some beggar against him, or himself threatened to rob and beat him, till the frightened mujik would disappear from the dosshouse and never more be seen.

    Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

  • “Come now,” replied the mujik, recognizing the fact that it was useless to struggle against the will of his guest,

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • The mujik very fortunately knew a postmaster who, if well paid, would not refuse at his request either to let or to sell a carriage or horses.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • The representative of the latter class was an old mujik called

    Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

  • “They have not killed her,” replied the mujik, anticipating the anxiety which he read in the eyes of his guest.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

  • It is well known that he does not get it by honest hard work, and that means that the mujik, somehow or other, has been swindling.

    Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories 2003

  • The mujik and Michael resumed their way and arrived at the posting-house.

    Michael Strogoff 2003

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  • Also moujik.

    January 7, 2009

  • A more common transliteration from the Russian is muzhik.

    January 7, 2009