kopeck

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kopeck (plural kopecks)

1. Alternative spelling of kopek.
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter IX, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎^[1]:

     "They do not exceed it? Fie! Why, you are robbing your children of their last kopeck—you, their guardian!"

• copeck, copek, kopek

Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.pɛk/

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kopeck m (plural kopecks)

1. kopek
2. (figuratively, chiefly in the negative) a wooden nickel or brass farthing, an iota

   Personne n’aurait misé un kopeck sur eux. ― Nobody would have bet a wooden nickel on them.

• “kopeck”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.