ethnic expressions

Anna Rakityanskaya rakitya at mail.utexas.edu
Sat Oct 14 09:56:46 UTC 1995


 >cyganic (v ~= to gypsy)--to cheat, lie

Note the different meaning of "tsyganit'" (and perfective "vytsyganit'") in
Russian: "to beg for something".

Anna Rakityanskaya
University of Texas, Austin
Internet: RAKITYA at MAIL.UTEXAS.EDU



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