Noun: droshky
| Singular | droshky |
| Plural | droshkys; droshkies |
Sample Sentences
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Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky. [1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital:]
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Was Tchitcherine there at all? sitting back in the dingy room while the lift cables slapped and creaked through the walls, and down in the street, rarely enough to matter, a droshky rattled whip-snapping over these black old cobbles? [1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:]
Nouns inflected like droshky
simily,
react Andy,
Hooray Henry,
roly-poly,
millijansky,
Demmy,
satrapy,
Susan B. Anthony,
dundreary,
Colby,
Lilly,
Jimmy,
'Arry,
droshky,
drostdy,
Johnny,
microjansky,
Taffy,
glengarry,
BlackBerry, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian дро́жки (dróžki), plural diminutive of дро́ги (drógi, “wagon, hearse”), plural of дрога́ (drogá, “centre pole of a carriage”).