fartsovshchik
English
editEtymology
editFrom Russian фарцо́вщик (farcóvščik).
Noun
editfartsovshchik (plural fartsovshchiks)
- A person involved in the illegal trade of fartsovka.
- 1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN:
- Locate a potential fartsovshchik – anyone under forty with a modicum of dress sense. […] Express yourself in a pronounced American accent: no black marketeer worth his salt wants to encumber himself with slumping pounds sterling.