приказчик

Russian

Alternative forms

Etymology

приказа́ть (prikazátʹ) +‎ -щик (-ščik)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [prʲɪˈkaɕːɪk]

Noun

прика́зчик • (prikázčikm anim (genitive прика́зчика, nominative plural прика́зчики, genitive plural прика́зчиков)

  1. (historical) shop clerk, shop assistant, salesman (hired worker in a shop in pre-revolutionary Russia)
    прика́зчик в ла́вкеprikázčik v lávke(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (historical) steward (managing landowner’s manor in pre-revolutionary Russia)
    ба́рский прика́зчикbárskij prikázčik(please add an English translation of this usage example)
    • 1779, Яков Княжнин [Yakov Knyazhnin], “Действие I. Явление VII”, in Несчастие от кареты; English translation from Misfortune from a Carriage, (Please provide a date or year):
      Вели́ко де́ло, ведь прика́зчик он!
      Вели́ко ль де́ло, что прика́зчик он!
      Velíko délo, vedʹ prikázčik on!
      Velíko lʹ délo, što prikázčik on!
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. (figuratively, dated) someone who blindly follows and obeys his master

Declension

Quotations

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Derived terms