concept
Chinosha
chinosha
also: petty clerk
A mildly derisive diminutive for a low-ranking civil servant preoccupied with his place in the Table of Ranks (chin); a stock figure of petty officialdom in Chekhov's early comic sketches.
Reading notes
- Fortune-Tellers, Male and Female §9 petty clerk
Chinosha (чиноша), a mildly derisive diminutive for a low-ranking civil servant obsessed with his place in the Table of Ranks (chin) -- a stock figure in Chekhov's early comic sketches of bureaucratic Russia.