Runglish

English

Etymology

Blend of Russian +‎ English

Proper noun

Runglish

1. (informal) Any mixture of the Russian and English languages.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 6:

     Don’t bother defining Runglish, simply let its rising bilingual tides of English-flavored Russian and Russian-flavored English wash over your eardrums – as thousands of speakers in a dozen societies already do. (Moscow News 11 Sept 2013)

2. (informal) An informal romanization of Russian, usually following English spelling rules.

Synonyms

• Ruglish
• Russlish

Translations

Runglish

• Russian: рунгли́йский язы́к m (runglíjskij jazýk), ра́нглиш m (rángliš), ру́нглиш m (rúngliš)

See also

• Nadsat (“the Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonists in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962)”)

Anagrams

• hurlings