dedushka

Noun

dedushka (plural dedushkas or dedushki)

1. A Russian grandfather.
   • There they were, the devoted babushkas and dedushkas, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers of Bobby’s companions, lugging their bags, their bulging packages and bundles.1980, Mike Davidow, Moscow Diary, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 147
   • More than anything else, even the health of my dedushka, I dreamed that he would invite me to the sixth-grade dance.[…]If I squinted my eyes, I could see the slumping form of my dedushka, standing at the bus stop, amidst young mothers, bored siblings, and Polish nannies.2011, Irina Reyn, “Koshchei the Deathless”, in Nicole Steinberg, editor, Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens, Albany, N.Y.: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press...
2. A Russian old man.
   • Yet, much as I loved to listen to it, standing there in the heat of all the lighted candles and dressed in my heavy shuba and felt boots, I invariably, halfway through the service, would begin to feel an intolerable pain across my shoulders which would spread across my back, gradually getting...1984, Eugenie Fraser, “Before the Storm”, in The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood, Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 126–127
   • The babushki and dedushki bring the flowers in from their garden plots on the outskirts of town.1997 May 25, Toni Hull, “Old men in uniform still parade in Red Square on Victory Day”, in David M. Hennigan, editor, Sunday News, 74th year, number 36, Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Newspapers, →OCLC...