Russki

English edit

Borrowed from Russian ру́сский (rússkij, “Russian”). First attested in 1858.

Russki (comparative more Russki, superlative most Russki)

Russki (plural Russkis or Russkies)

(usually derogatory, colloquial, ethnic slur) Russian.
- 1960 December, Dallas McCord Reynolds, “I'm a Stranger Here Myself”, in Amazing Stories‎^[1]:
  I scanned the front page. "The Russkies have put up another manned satellite."
  "They have, eh? How big?"
  "Several times bigger than anything we Americans have."

alternative term for Russian (derogatory)

Belarusian: маска́ль (be) m (maskálʹ), маска́лька f (maskálʹka), каца́п m (kacáp)
Chinese:
Mandarin: (pejorative) 老毛子 (Lǎomáozi), 毛子 (zh) (Máozi)
Czech: Rusák (cs) m
Esperanto: rusaĉo
Estonian: tibla (et), tiblad (et) pl
Finnish: ryssä (fi), iivana (fi), kaalineekeri, vanja (fi), slobo (fi), moskoviitti (fi), vinkkelitossu (fi), (feminine) venakko (fi)
French: ruskov (fr), russkoff (fr), russkof, ruskoff (fr), ruskof, Popov (fr)
German: Russki (de) m, Iwan (de) m, Russacke (de) m
Hungarian: ruszki (hu)
Japanese: (pejorative) 露助 (ja) (ろすけ, Rosuke), ロスケ (Rosuke)
Kazakh: аққұлақ (aqqūlaq)
Kyrgyz: жумбаш (jumbaş)
Polish: kacap (pl) m, kacapka (pl) f, Moskal (pl) m Ruski (pl) m, Ruska (pl) f, Rusek (pl) m
Romanian: rusnac m, rusnacă f
Russian: (self-derogatory) руса́к (ru) m (rusák), каца́п (ru) m (kacáp), каца́пка (ru) f (kacápka) (from Ukrainian), моска́ль (ru) m (moskálʹ), моска́лька f (moskálʹka) (from Ukrainian), русня́ (ru) f (rusnjá) (collective)
Serbo-Croatian: Руја m, Ruja m
Ukrainian: каца́п (uk) m (kacáp), каца́пка f (kacápka), моска́ль (uk) m (moskálʹ), моска́лька f (moskálʹka), ру́скій (rúskij)

“Russki”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“Russki” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005
Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Russki”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.