mujik

• muzhik
• muzjik
• moujik

From Russian мужи́к (mužík, “peasant”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmuː(d)ʒɪk/, /muːˈʒiːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk

mujik (plural mujiks or mujiki)

1. A Russian (male) peasant. [from 16th c.]
   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 361:

     Since she had last looked at a newspaper, it appeared that the Russians had become heroes and magnificent fighters. They were no longer a rabble of ill-equipped moujiks fleeing before the Nazi hordes.

   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     [A] few days later [I] had rented for the month of August what looked in the snapshots they sent me like a cross between a mujik's izba and Refuge Z, but it had a tiled bathroom and cost dearer than my Appalachian castle.

• mujique

mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)

1. mujik (male peasant in Russia)

mujik m or f by sense (plural mujiks)

1. mujik

• “mujik”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014