chetnik

English

Alternative forms

• četnik
• Chetnik

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian četnik, from četa (“band, group”) +‎ -nik.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɛtnɪk/

Noun

chetnik (plural chetniks)

1. (now historical) A member of a Serbian royalist army band.
   • 2002, John K Cox, The History of Serbia, page 95:

     Since most Chetniks only wanted to fight close to their homes, a mobile army that could carry out sustained campaigns under central command never developed.

   • 2004, Jonathan Steinberg, All of Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941-43, page 41:

     By the end of February 1942 Glaise von Horstenau reported to the OKW that the cetniks were parading in every village occupied by the Italians fully armed.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 27:

     By the winter of 1907, it was clear that a number of the četnik bands were operating in Macedonia independently of any supervision; only with some difficulty did an emissary from Belgrade succeed in re-imposing control.

2. An adherent of an nationalist revival of the historical Chetnik movement.
   • 2019 March 11, Mersiha Gadzo, “Serb Chetnik gathering in Bosnia’s Visegrad raises alarm”, in Al Jazeera‎^[1]:

     The Visegrad gathering, which saw uniform-wearing participants singing songs that included lines such as "there will be hell, the Drina will be bloody, here come the Chetniks from the Serb mountains’, provoked wariness and fear among Bosniak residents who survived some of the worst atrocities committed by Chetniks.

References

• "Chetnik", Britannica.
• “Chetnik”, Merriam–Webster.

Anagrams

• Kitchen, ethnick, kitchen, thicken