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khokhol

khokhol noun: a Ukrainian.

Noun (1)

khokhol (plural khokhols or khokhly or khakhly)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) A Ukrainian.
    • These Khokhols (the familiar term used, rather slightingly by the Great Russians for the Ukrainians) were drawn up in serried ranks in a public square.1935, A.A. Mossolov, At the Court of the Last Tsar: Being the Memoirs of A. A. Mossolov, head of the court chancellery, 1900-1916, London: Methuen, page 142
    • [p 145] His parents were Russians, but he had been born on his master’s estate in Little Russia, and prided himself on being a Khókhol, i.e. Little Russian.
      [p 146] I found good company there, I can tell you—twelve Khokhly,¹ all fine fellows and every one of them as strong as a horse. [footnote] 1...1881, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, transl. Marie von Thilo, Buried Alive: Or, Ten Years Penal Servitude in Siberia, London: Longmans, Green and Co.
  2. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur, specifically) A Ukrainian nationalist.

Noun (2) capitalized: Khokhol

Khokhol (plural Khokhols)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of khokhol.

Forms of khokhol

pluralkhokhols
pluralkhokhly
pluralkhakhly
alternative Internetcockhole
alternative formhohol
alternative formkhakhol
alternative formKhakhol
alternative formKhokhol
pluralKhokhols

Origin of khokhol

From Russian хохо́л (xoxól, “Ukrainian (pejorative)”), originally meaning “topknot”, from Old East Slavic хохолъ (xoxolŭ), from Proto-Slavic *xoxolъ, from *koxolъ.

Questions about khokhol

What does khokhol mean?
Khokhol means a Ukrainian.
What part of speech is khokhol?
Khokhol is a noun.
What is the plural of khokhol?
The plural of khokhol is khokhols.

Words near khokhol in the dictionary

  1. khokhlushka
  2. khokhlushkas
  3. khokhlushky
  4. khokhly
  5. Khokhma
  6. khokhol
  7. khokhols
  8. kholah
  9. Kholiphapa
  10. Kholla Suyu
  11. kholodets

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