zekn.

Brit.

/zɛk/, U.S.

/zɛk/

Inflections: Plural zeks, zeki.

Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian zek.

Etymology: < Russian zèk, zek convict, especially political prisoner (1962 or earlier), representing a pronunciation of z/k , an abbreviation of uncertain origin: probably originally representing zaključënnyj kanaloarmeec < zaključënnyj imprisoned + kanaloarmeec person working on construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal ( < kanal canal n. + -o- -o- connective + armeec member of an army, after krasnoarmeec, lit. ‘soldier of the Red Army’).In plural form zeki after the Russian plural form.

Originally and chiefly in Russian-speaking contexts: a prisoner; a convict; (in early use) esp. a person held in a forced labour camp in the U.S.S.R.

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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun]

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1968 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn First Circle p. x All the zeks at the Mavrino sharashka belonged, though they were not at the time in hard-labor camps, to the realm of GULAG.

1982 T. J. Binyon Swan Song viii. 58 They got him for parasitism and a few other offences. Now he was presumably..east of the Urals and taking the zeks for their bread ration.

1998 M. Booth Industry of Souls xi. 239 I came here to repay a debt to a close friend, a fellow zek.

2017 J. Pallot & E. Katz Waiting at Prison Gate vii. 135 Some contributors insist that..bringing a child into the world whose father is a zek is to cast ‘a cloud over its childhood’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	zek
释义	zekn. Brit. /zɛk/, U.S. /zɛk/ Inflections: Plural zeks, zeki. Origin: A borrowing from Russian. Etymon: Russian zek. Etymology: < Russian zèk, zek convict, especially political prisoner (1962 or earlier), representing a pronunciation of z/k , an abbreviation of uncertain origin: probably originally representing zaključënnyj kanaloarmeec < zaključënnyj imprisoned + kanaloarmeec person working on construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal ( < kanal canal n. + -o- -o- connective + armeec member of an army, after krasnoarmeec, lit. ‘soldier of the Red Army’).In plural form zeki after the Russian plural form. Originally and chiefly in Russian-speaking contexts: a prisoner; a convict; (in early use) esp. a person held in a forced labour camp in the U.S.S.R. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] prisona1225 prisonerc1384 enpresonéc1425 bird1580 warder1584 canary bird1593 penitentiala1633 convict1786 chum1819 lag1819 lagger1819 new chum1819 nut-brown1835 collegian1837 canary1840 Sydney duck1873 forty1879 zebra1882 con1893 yardbird1956 zek1968 1968 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn First Circle p. x All the zeks at the Mavrino sharashka belonged, though they were not at the time in hard-labor camps, to the realm of GULAG. 1982 T. J. Binyon Swan Song viii. 58 They got him for parasitism and a few other offences. Now he was presumably..east of the Urals and taking the zeks for their bread ration. 1998 M. Booth Industry of Souls xi. 239 I came here to repay a debt to a close friend, a fellow zek. 2017 J. Pallot & E. Katz Waiting at Prison Gate vii. 135 Some contributors insist that..bringing a child into the world whose father is a zek is to cast ‘a cloud over its childhood’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1968
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