Definition of "moujik" [moujik]

• Variant of muzhik. (noun)

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• ""Adoremus in aeternum" was their motto; he was her humble "moujik," and she was his "predilecta, his love, his life, his only thought." ["
• "` Hellish places, by all accounts, rations a Siberian moujik wouldn't touch, and less civilised behaviour than you'd meet in the Congo, but I'm told there's no education like it - a lifetime's trainin 'in knavery packed into six years."
• "There was a thumping of boots on the bank, I started round, and there was the moujik, not ten yards away."