"Triuki"

[Karen Kettering]

Dear SEELANGERS:

A friend and I have both come across the word "triuki" in NEP era
Russian texts and are trying to arrive at a good translation of the
term.  In both cases, the word was used to refer to the
unseemly--possibly sexualized--activities of young women.  Does
anyone out there have any experience with Russian colloquial language
of the 1920's?  I should say that we came across the references in
Leningrad newspapers.

Thanks in advance.

Karen Kettering
Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
(kkettering at getty.edu)