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[Alina Israeli]

Аt least he has the proper vowel reduction.

Жид as a 'stingy person' and some variations on the meaning could be  
found in various dictionaries.

There is a verb пожидиться which is absent in all the dictionaries I  
checked (I am sure there are still a few left unchecked). As this site  
shows (if it's correct) only Орфографический словарь has an entry:
http://slovari.yandex.ru/~%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8/%D0%9E%D1%80%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F/

This site mentions the verb жидиться http://russian_argo.academic.ru/3608/%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F 
, but neither Большой словарь жаргона (БСЖ), nor Словарь тысячелетнего  
русского арго list it. Neither do the standard dictionaries.


As far as children using "gay" for 'bad', I would not jump to  
conclusions immediately. Often-times teens use a word to mean its  
opposite. "Wicked", for example, has a positive connotation http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wicked



On Mar 20, 2013, at 5:46 PM, anne marie devlin wrote:
>
>
> As for жиды, the 16 year-old native speaker was convinced it was a  
> short form adjective and simply a derivative of жадны - quite  
> shocking.


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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