Meaning of devochka | Babel Free

Examples

“The few Russian devochkas who were bold or curious enough to venture forth publicly accompanied by Americans were usually warned by Soviet officials.”

“She is one of the growing number of trim blonde devochkas (young girls) who turn heads as they walk down Gorky St., the main thoroughfare from the south to the Kremlin, which combines the functions of State St. and Madison Ave. […] The Moscow devochka is changed—she turns heads.”

“This devochka must lie. “Diaries take up space,” she thought.”

“There are women all around me now, babkas and devochkas too.”

“That goddamn bastard Fyodor Pavlovich from [Fyodor] Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov knocked up an idiot girl named Stinking Lizaveta and named the illegitimate child Smerdyakov, which means “son of the reeking one.” The piteous devochka died giving birth, but many moons later back in the real world a Philadelphia band named themselves after her.”

“And yet, from simple Siberian crescents, to triangular Kostroman ‘kika’, to the towering cylinders typical of Novgorod; the heirloom kokoshniki that once gathered dust at the back of family cupboards are now worn with pride everywhere from the Moscow metropolis to the villages around Vladivostok… True proof, as if it was needed, that this humble headdress is equally at home on the heads of the devochkas of the districts as those of the world’s stateliest supermodels; […]”

““Perhaps you should tell us a little of your story devochka?” said Yuri, “if we are to protect you, for I think that will be necessary, then we should know who you are and why we are doing so.” / Natalie lifted her chin slightly, “I am not a young girl, a devochka, indeed, I am engaged to be married to a wonderful man, who even as we speak must be frantic as to my whereabouts.””

““Watch your tongue, devochka. You are already fat enough as it is.” […] “Now, devochka, do it again and everyone can go eat,” demanded Maestra Katya in an accent thicker than tar.”

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