malchick
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Russian ма́льчик (málʹčik, “boy; lad”).
Noun edit
malchick (plural malchicks)
- (rare) A young male; a lad.
- 1963 [1962], Anthony Burgess, chapter 1, in A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 4:
- There were three devotchkas sitting at the counter all together, but there were four of us malchicks and it was usually like one for all and all for one.
- 1964, Andrew Loog Oldham, The Rolling Stones, Now![1], London: The Decca Record Company Limited, LL 3420:
- It is the summer of the night / London’s eyes be tight shut / all but twelve peepers and / six hip malchicks who prance / the street.
- 1978, Julie Burchill, Tony Parsons, “The Boy Looked at Johnny.” The Obituary of Rock and Roll, Winchester, Mass.: Faber and Faber, Inc., published 1987, →ISBN, page 35:
- Around this minute, extortionate shrine clustered professional malchicks, their egos as delicate as painted eggshells, languidly engaged in conversation while their restless eyes cast around relentlessly for someone still higher on the status ladder of punkdom.
- 2009, Wu Ming [pseudonym; Roberto Bui, Giovanni Cattabriga, Luca Di Meo, Federico Guglielmi, Riccardo Pedrini], translated by Shaun Whiteside, chapter 25, in Manituana, London, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 224:
- Meanwhile, all the malchicks in the gang had turned to clock her, and with the frontages they had it wasn’t easy to distinguish them from the rest.
- 2012, Garry Bushell, Time for Action: Essays on the Mod Revival from the ‘79 Frontline, London: Countdown Books Limited, →ISBN, page 124:
- So, let’s talk facts, malchicks.