Definition of "mujik" []

• Variant of muzhik. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The popular cries which madden other races are utterly meaningless to the docile, unemotional "mujik," loyal and conservative to the very marrow of his bones."
• "Note: Note: [From Judy Boss] While I have let stand such variants as "mujik" and "moujik" or "Koondooz" and "Koundouze," I have made the following changes to the text:"
• "It is well known that he does not get it by honest hard work, and that means that the mujik, somehow or other, has been swindling."