Khokhol

Quick meaning: Khokhol is a noun meaning (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, in a Russian context) A Ukrainian.

Meaning

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, in a Russian context) A Ukrainian.

More Meanings

1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, in a Russian context, specifically) A Ukrainian nationalist.

Example Sentences

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.

[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 Plural of Khókhol.

Specially characteristic of Russia, as of a land abounding in endless plains, are two jocular allusions to the inhabitants of the Steppes—‘I can’t bear this crowding,’ a Khokhol, or Little-Russian, is supposed to say, as he upsets a kettle which he finds suspended over a camp-fire in the open plain; and ‘These accursed Muscovites! there’s no driving-room left!’ cries another, as he runs into a verst-post (answering to our milestone) in the midst of the boundless waste.

Word Forms

• khokhols
• khokhly

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include katsap, kholop, hunyok, ukro-nazi, honky, honklet.

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