malchik

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malchik (plural malchiks)

  1. Alternative form of malchick.
    • 1972 February, Robert Fulford, “[The Hollywood Versions] Love the Ultra-Violence”, in Marshall Delaney at the Movies: The Contemporary World as Seen on Film, Toronto, Ont.: Peter Martin Associates, published 1974, →ISBN, page 150:
      O my brothers, this is a real weepy and like tragic time for all the malchiks in the movie ind.
    • 1983, John Steane, “The Queen of Spades”, in Alan Blyth, editor, Opera on Record 2, New York, N.Y.: Beaufort Books Inc., published 1984, →ISBN, page 271:
      The chorus women wobble here too, and the lads could well do with the Bolshoi malchiks to smarten up their drill.
    • 1997, Roger Boylan, Killoyle, Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 237:
      [] White Sea Canal was great big White Elephant Canal in middle of Big Guy-forsaken tundra where it’s always the middle of the night, or more like 3 a.m., and it’s minus 72 outside, with crazy two-meter-tall machine-gun-carrying malchiks ready to turn you into Ladoga blackberry jam whenever it fits in with their busy schedules . . .