Boodishnick

[Helena Tolstoy]

Possibly boodoshnik, a policeman, in some local version?

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[mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Wessling
Sent: 30 March 2008 03:10
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Boodishnick

Neil,

Re-reading SEELANGS on an afternoon devoted to professional catch-up.  I
hope you and Andy are well.

Could you possibly recommend a socio-linguist who is a good speaker and can
speak knowledgeably (and engagingly) about linguistic differentiation (and
usage) in contemporary Ukraine?  We need such a scholar to come speak to us
(a mixed academic and community audience) next autumn.

Has Asya P. been communicating with you at all?

Best,

Rob


On 11/30/07 1:36 AM, "Neil Bermel" <n.bermel at SHEFFIELD.AC.UK> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Here's one of those friend-of-a-friend-asked-me queries. I've checked a
> number of obvious sources to which I have access, including Russian
> print and online dictionaries and Yiddish and Ukrainian online
> dictionaries and googling the word in various spellings (only one
> hit...), but no luck. I'm not even sure if the word referred to is best
> treated as Russian (seems unlikely), Ukrainian, Yiddish....
> 
> "A word cropped up in a piece of fiction I¹ve got to annotate for a book
> proposal. The word is Œboodishnick¹, which is how it¹s spelt in the
> fiction, but I¹m not sure whether it¹s correctly spelled. The context is
> a pogrom in Odessa during the 1880s, and the word is used by one of the
> mob, who shouts ŒWho murdered the boodishnick?¹ Could you help with a
> possible translation?"
> 
> Any advice for this person will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Neil
> 
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