one more question on kukharka

[Edward M Dumanis]

Kukharka is a kitchen maid. Since they did not generally have kitchen
maids in the USSR, the word went out of usage in standard contemporary
context.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 simon.krysl at DUKE.EDU wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues,
> Many thanks for the response on Lenin's ,,kukharka." I have merely one,
> complementary, question, regarding the word itself. Does kukharka refer
> exclusively to a servant - and thus becoming, perhaps, often a word for a
> kitchen maid, perhaps with derogatory overtones? It seems to be heavily
> gender-marked: there is (according to my dictionary) no kukhar- just povar, or
> shef. Is there a difference between kukharka and povarikha -today or earlier
> in the 20th century?
> Many apologies for bothering with what may well be a silly query (or one to
> which I should know the answer) - and many, many thanks
> Sincerely yours,
> Simon Krysl
> Duke University / Prague
> 
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