NABOKV-L post 0021741, Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:32:39 -0300

Alexey Sklyarenko:-rukiy, the second part of the name Dolgorukiy and adjective bezrukiy, is present in sukhorukiy (without the use of one arm; having a withered arm). Kuz'ma Minin Sukhoruk (? - 1616) was a leader of the national liberating struggle of Russian people against the Poland-Lithuania invaders, one of the leaders of the second volunteer corps (1611-1612) and a national hero. Koz'ma Zakhar'yich Minin Sukhoruk is a play (1861) by A. Ostrovsky.[...] ... at the picnic on Ada's sixteenth birthday (1.39), Greg witnesses Van's scuffle with Percy de Prey who tells Ada that "your cousin has treated Greg and your humble servant to a most bracing exhibition of Oriental Skrotomoff or whatever the name may be." Lucette (who watched the scuffle from an ambush) chants:'He screwed off a nipple,/He left him a cripple...'

JM: Until Sklyarenko's wrote about an "Oriental Skrotomoff" and Lucette's chants about nipples and cripples, I hadn't noticed the malicious designation for that kind of oriental scuffle...(it sound so genuinely Russian)

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