Word of the day: whip

Whip

Noun, common noun, animate, masculine.

Meaning

A smart, self-righteous and empty young man who loves to show off.

Synonyms

Dandy, dude, dandy.

History

The word was put into wide literary circulation by the writer Ivan Panaev, who in the mid-50s of the 19th century published in the Sovremennik magazine a whole series of feuilletons about khlyshch: "Great World Khlyshch", "Provincial Khlyshch", "Khlyshch High School". Panaev himself borrowed this word from the circle jargon of the writers' environment of the 40s, where it came from the living speech of peoples from various regions of the country.

It is interesting that the word "khlysh" was not noted by any of the dictionaries of the Russian literary language before the dictionary of Vladimir Dahl, where it was described as a synonym for the word "khlyst". The meaning of these words was defined as follows: "fat, dandy, dandy, rake, bassist."

Usage examples

"He was by no means the best actor in London, but he was very good in the role of the stupid dodger, without which until recently no comedy was complete." Pat Rogers, Henry Fielding. Biography".
"This culture, which gives the right to the evolved bush to rape our wives, and flog us ourselves, hang, shoot without counting and endlessly." Vladimir Zazubrin, "Two Worlds".
"Even if we give him a pyramid of gold and silver and the second - precious stones, he will do nothing, because this is a spoiled child, whom the Assyrian ambassador Sargon called nothing but a whip." Boleslav Prus, "Pharaoh".