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ushkuiniks

ushkuiniks is the plural of ushkuinik.

Meaning of ushkuinik

Noun

ushkuinik (plural ushkuiniks)

  1. A medieval Novgorodian pirate who led a life similar to that of a Viking.
    • Vasily tells his mother that he wants to travel to Jerusalem because the time has come for him to repent his earlier misdeeds, possibly an allusion to a life of fighting, killing, and robbery as a Viking-like ushkuinik.1998, James Bailey, Anthology Russian Folk Epics, M.E. Sharpe, page 319

Questions about ushkuiniks

What is ushkuiniks the plural of?
Ushkuiniks is the plural of ushkuinik.

Words near ushkuiniks in the dictionary

  1. ushioni
  2. ushiromotare
  3. Ushkoff
  4. ushkovite
  5. ushkuinik
  6. ushkuiniks
  7. USHL
  8. ushnisha
  9. ushnishas
  10. Ushnishavijaya
  11. Ushoji

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