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ArchivesRe: The origin of the surname Bondy
in reply to a message by Gopnik
Your informant appears to have been correct. Translations from the Russian I've turned up are "street robber", "criminal" and "bad boy". But this seems to be a fairly modern word, or meaning of the word. Gopnik is a letter for letter transliteration from the Cyrillic, Gopnick an English language spelling.
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