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Etymology

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фо́то (fóto, photo) +‎ жа́ба (žába, toad). From a humorous modification of фотошо́п (fotošóp, photoshop) first as фотожо́п(а) (fotožóp(a), photoass), alluding to the expression че́рез жо́пу (čérez žópu, in a botchered manner), and then euphemistically as the present form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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фотожа́ба (fotožábaf inan (genitive фотожа́бы, nominative plural фотожа́бы, genitive plural фотожа́б)

  1. (colloquial, neologism) an image, a (photoshopped) caricature of a person or an event to make someone or something look comical

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