devochka

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of devotchka.

   “The few Russian devochkas who were bold or curious enough to venture forth publicly accompanied by Americans were usually warned by Soviet officials.”

   “She is one of the growing number of trim blonde devochkas (young girls) who turn heads as they walk down Gorky St., the main thoroughfare from the south to the Kremlin, which combines the functions of State St. and Madison Ave. […] The Moscow devochka is changed—she turns heads.”

   “This devochka must lie. “Diaries take up space,” she thought.”

   “There are women all around me now, babkas and devochkas too.”

   “That goddamn bastard Fyodor Pavlovich from [Fyodor] Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov knocked up an idiot girl named Stinking Lizaveta and named the illegitimate child Smerdyakov, which means “son of the reeking one.” The piteous devochka died giving birth, but many moons later back in the real world a Philadelphia band named themselves after her.”