dedushkas

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
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