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    • Nadsat (‘-надцать’ or ‘-nadtsat’ literally meaning “on ten”) The very name of the Nadsat dialect used by Alex and his friends comes from the Russian suffix that roughly translates to “teen.”
    • Droog (‘друг' or ‘droog’ meaning ‘friend’) "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim” Encountered as early as the first page, “droog” is perhaps the most famous Nadsat word from the book.
    • Moloko (‘молоко’ or ‘moloko’ meaning ‘milk’) “…after you'd drunk the old moloko… you got the messel that everything all round you was sort of in the past…”
    • Horrorshow (‘хорошо’ or ‘khorosho’ meaning ‘good’) “I gave him one real horrorshow kick on the gulliver and he went ohhhh, then he sort of snorted off to like sleep…”
  2. Aug 27, 2023 · devotchka (plural devotchkas) ( rare) A girl, especially one of Russian descent. Categories: English terms borrowed from Russian. English terms derived from Russian. English lemmas. English nouns. English countable nouns. English terms with rare senses.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › DeVotchKaDeVotchKa - Wikipedia

    DeVotchKa is an American four-piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble. They take their name from the Russian word devochka (девочка), meaning "girl".

    • Nick Urata, Tom Hagerman, Jeanie Schroder, Shawn King
    • 1997–present
  4. Nov 29, 2003 · 1.noun.Russian in origin; meaning girl,ladie or young woman depending on the pronunciation. 2.noun.eclectic band featuring violin, voice, guitars, drums, susaphone, theramin, buzouki,etc. Albums in chronological order are "Supermelodrama", " Triple X Tango", "Una Volta ", and "How It Ends". It is hard to classify the eclectic stylings of that ...

  5. What does devotchka‎ mean? devotchka ( English) Origin & history. From Russian де́вочка. Noun. devotchka ( pl. devotchkas) ( nonce) A girl. 1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange:

  6. Definition of devotchka in the Definitions.net dictionary. Meaning of devotchka. What does devotchka mean? Information and translations of devotchka in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web.

  7. Apr 6, 2016 · Urata was not explaining some random sociopathic crime spree, the kind so prevalent in Stanley Kubrick’s dark and violent 1971 satire. He was explaining why the band, which a panel of 47 experts assembled by The Denver Post has decreed the best underground outfit in Colorado, is called DeVotchKa.

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