Dictionary of Russian Obscenities

by David Alan Drummond

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933884540
• ISBN13: 9780933884540
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Scythian Books
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This is not suppose to be a serious book , PEOPLE!

I have the original first run publication, out of a little house in Berkeley, CA, from yesy, back in the 70's. You cannot look at this book as a serious thing, its for th coffee table and get a few laughs. David addmitted this to me, but he still thinks is sort of scholarly! Just have fun....or go out and ride a bike! of course some of the entries might be out of date, look when it was first published! Damn, we all gettin old!

i would give this book 3.4374398256489564387435746 stars

who wood have thunk it that aaaaaa equals oooooffff in rusian? i am a rusian that loves to party with his badself. i memmorized this entre bookk. weinerschnitzel is my favorite word

taboo, but useful

This miniature booklet, small enough to carry in pocket or handbag, presents definitions of Russian obscenities in straightforward manner. The book contains the very crudest sexual and scatological lingo. It is handy for deciphering street-slang and grafitti whose translation one might hesitate to inquire of one's proper Russian friends. Unlike "Dermo!", Drummond's dictionary does not include phonetic English pronunciations nor provide examples of the vocabulary in witty little phrases -- which is preferable, since it could be disasterous for foreign visitors in Russia to attempt to spice their speech with these taboo words. Moreover, some of the entries are antiquated terms now obsolete in "everyday" vulgarity. These are most useful for students of nineteenth-century Russian literature, bawdy tales, and lewd verse. Equivalent russkie slovari of English-language obscenities are nearly nonexistant; I gave my first copy of Drummond's little dictionary to my podruga in Krasnoe. She finds it useful for translating the "unspeakable" speech in American videos!