Meaning of vatnyk | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

Examples

“Resort to using old, Soviet rhetoric which remains an effective means of influencing the zombie population of vatnyks.”

“Kharkiv, Mariupol, Slovyansk will start⟳ to become⟳ Ukrainian in front of our eyes. Because it is already unprestigious to stay⟳ “vatnyk” (literally — “a jacket quilted with cotton wool” — means “russian follower”).”

“I personally like⟳ the acronym LGBTCIA. some deranged vatnyk buffoon called me it on tumblr and I thought it was funny.”

“We went back inside and then the house’s owner arrived, a sullen vatnyk whom Dmytro paid off to keep⟳ his house available for billeting, like⟳ we were doing. The vatnyk was holding a ten-liter can of water, one of the soldiers asked him to light⟳ the stove, he muttered a refusal and left.”

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