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noun, plural Men·she·viks, Men·she·vik·i 
[-vik-ee, -vee-kee; Russ. -vyi-kyee] .
[-vik-ee, -vee-kee; Russ. -vyi-kyee] . a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' party in opposition to the Bolsheviks: advocated gradual development of full socialism through parliamentary government and cooperation with bourgeois parties; absorbed into the Communist party formed in 1918.
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Menshevik
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| Menshevik or Menshevist (ˈmɛnʃɪvɪk) | |
| —n | |
| Compare Bolshevik a member of the moderate wing of the Russian Social Democratic Party, advocating gradual reform to achieve socialism | |
| [C20: from Russian, literally: minority, from menshe less, from malo few] | |
| Menshevist or Menshevist | |
| —n | |
| [C20: from Russian, literally: minority, from menshe less, from malo few] | |
| 'Menshevism or Menshevist | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
menshevik
1917, from Rus. men'shevik, from men'she "lesser" (comp. of malo "little," from PIE base *men- "to lessen, diminish") + -evik "one that is." So called by Lenin because they were a minority in the party. Earlier used in ref. to the minority faction of the Social-Democratic Party, when it split in 1903.
EXPANDRussian pl. mensheviki occasionally was used in Eng.
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