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fartsovshchik

fartsovshchik noun: a person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.

Noun

fartsovshchik (plural fartsovshchiks)

  1. A person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
    • Locate a potential fartsovshchik – anyone under forty with a modicum of dress sense. […] Express yourself in a pronounced American accent: no black marketeer worth his salt wants to encumber himself with slumping pounds sterling.1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN

Forms of fartsovshchik

pluralfartsovshchiks

Origin of fartsovshchik

From Russian фарцо́вщик (farcóvščik).

Questions about fartsovshchik

What does fartsovshchik mean?
Fartsovshchik means a person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
What part of speech is fartsovshchik?
Fartsovshchik is a noun.
What is the plural of fartsovshchik?
The plural of fartsovshchik is fartsovshchiks.

Words near fartsovshchik in the dictionary

  1. farts in windstorms
  2. farts off
  3. farts out
  4. fartsome
  5. fartsovka
  6. fartsovshchik
  7. fartsovshchiks
  8. fartsy
  9. farty
  10. Faruhulhedhoo
  11. Farukolhu

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