vatnyk
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of vatnik.
Example Sentences
- "Resort to using old, Soviet rhetoric which remains an effective means of influencing the zombie population of vatnyks."
- "Kharkiv, Mariupol, Slovyansk will start to become Ukrainian in front of our eyes. Because it is already unprestigious to stay “vatnyk” (literally — “a jacket quilted with cotton wool” — means “russian follower”)."
- "I personally like the acronym LGBTCIA. some deranged vatnyk buffoon called me it on tumblr and I thought it was funny."
- "We went back inside and then the house’s owner arrived, a sullen vatnyk whom Dmytro paid off to keep his house available for billeting, like we were doing. The vatnyk was holding a ten-liter can of water, one of the soldiers asked him to light the stove, he muttered a refusal and left."
Etymology
From Ukrainian ва́тник (vátnyk).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ва́тник