fartsovshchik

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English

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Etymology

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From Russian фарцо́вщик (farcóvščik).

Noun

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fartsovshchik (plural fartsovshchiks)

  1. A person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
    • 1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:
      Locate a potential fartsovshchik – anyone under forty with a modicum of dress sense. […] Express yourself in a pronounced American accent: no black marketeer worth his salt wants to encumber himself with slumping pounds sterling.
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