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chernukha

chernukha noun: a gloomy genre of Russian horror.

Noun

chernukha (uncountable)

  1. A gloomy genre of Russian horror.
    • Though the USA came in for severe criticism, it was admitted that at least the Americans had perfected a form for the horror film. The Russians were unsure of genres. One speaker made the helpful observation that we should distinguish between home-grown 'chernukha' and foreign 'chernukha'.1998, Rusistika, The Association
    • It should be emphasized that, although Petrushevskaia's subject matter is weighty, serious, often horrific, her texts abundant in image of loss, death, and difficult love, and her awareness of social problems acute, her style is the factor that raises her work above other practitioners of...2000, Sally Dalton-Brown, Voices from the Void: The Genres of Liudmila Petrushevskaia

Origin of chernukha

From Russian черну́ха (černúxa), from чёрный (čórnyj, “black”).

Questions about chernukha

What does chernukha mean?
Chernukha means a gloomy genre of Russian horror.
What part of speech is chernukha?
Chernukha is a noun.

Words near chernukha in the dictionary

  1. Chernovs
  2. Chernovtsy
  3. chernozem
  4. chernozemic
  5. chernozems
  6. chernukha
  7. Cherny
  8. Chernyak
  9. Chernyakhovsk
  10. Chernykh
  11. chernykhite

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