droshky

English

Alternative forms

• droschke, drosky, drozhky

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɒʃki/

Noun

droshky (plural droshkys or droshkies)

1. An open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia.
   • 1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:

     Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles?

Synonyms

• droitzschka

Translations

open horse-drawn carriage, especially in Russia

• Belarusian: дро́жкі f pl (dróžki)
• Czech: drožka f
• French: drojki (fr) m
• Georgian: დროშკები pl (drošḳebi)
• German: Droschke (de) f
• Polish: dorożka (pl) f
• Russian: дро́жки (ru) f pl (dróžki), дро́ги (ru) f pl (drógi)
• Ukrainian: дро́жки f pl (dróžky)
• Yakut: тэлиэскэ (telieske)