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in reply to a message by Jim Young
Hey thank you! Could you find anything for me on Gopnik? I think it used to be spelled Gopnick, and it's Russian I believe... someone told me it meant something like "hoodlum" in Russian. This is a great website by the way, I've been curious about my family's names for a long time! Thanks for the work you're doing here...
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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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