kopeyka

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Noun

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kopeyka (plural kopeykas or kopeyki)

  1. Alternative spelling of kopeika (kopek).
    • 1994 spring, Shofar, volume 12, number 3, page 90:
      Was it not worth those few kopeyki it had cost him?
    • 1996, Morris Rowe, “Immigrant”, in Barnabe Mountain Review, number 2, →ISSN, page 191:
      I’d watch my Kopeyki / But spend too much for a coat
    • 1997, Felix Gryff, Red Hell, Bib ID 3033350, page 150:
      The amount of work required to earn 26 roubles 40 kopeyki was one and a half times more than the physical possibilities of a healthy workman would allow in one day.
    • 2023, Nicholas Kinloch, From the Soviet Gulag to Arnhem: A Polish Paratrooper’s Epic Wartime Journey, Pen & Sword Military, →ISBN:
      Staszek, can you lend me some money? It’s just a small amount Staszek. A small insignificant number of roubles and kopeyki.