Vulgar words in Russia (Page 1)
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The word durak (blockhead) was constantly on his lips, and when any bit of work was well done, he took it as a matter of course, and never thought of giving a word of approval or encouragement.
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"And serve them right, the blockheads!" added my informant, who had herself escaped falling into the trap by being absent from the village at the time.
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If he calls an honourable member "Durak" (blockhead), or interrupts an orator with a laconic "Moltchi!"
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you are blockheads--blockheads all round!
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Among the young generation it was used most disrespectfully as equivalent to "pompous blockhead."
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Long ago Samuel Butler justly remarked that we damn the sins we have no mind to.
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Though not at all a partisan of violent means, he had become infuriated against autocracy and the Tsar, as was shown by his language when he said: 'If that blockhead of a Tsar comes out' (Yesli etot durak Tsar vuidet)...