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Runglish

Runglish proper noun: any mixture of the Russian and English languages.

Proper noun

Runglish

  1. (informal) Any mixture of the Russian and English languages.
    • Don’t bother defining Runglish, simply let its rising bilingual tides of English-flavored Russian and Russian-flavored English wash over your eardrums – as thousands of speakers in a dozen societies already do. (Moscow News 11 Sept 2013)2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 6
  2. (informal) An informal romanization of Russian, usually following English spelling rules.

Synonyms of Runglish

Origin of Runglish

Blend of Russian + English.

Questions about Runglish

What does Runglish mean?
Runglish means any mixture of the Russian and English languages.
What part of speech is Runglish?
Runglish is a proper noun.

Words near Runglish in the dictionary

  1. Runge-Kutta methods
  2. runged
  3. runghead
  4. rungheads
  5. rungless
  6. Runglish
  7. rungs
  8. rungu
  9. rungus
  10. Rungwa
  11. runholder

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