person
Semashechka
also: Семашечка
An affectionately mocking diminutive nickname for a family or social acquaintance of Ivan Pavlovich Chekhov's, whose wife Chekhov jokingly calls "broken-down" in a closing aside asking whether Semashechka is still "sawing away" at her. Not otherwise identified in this corpus.
Reading notes
- To I. P. Chekhov, 16 July 1889. Parokhod "Olga". §8 Is Semashechka still sawing away at his broken-down wife?
A comic, affectionately mocking closing question to Ivan; "sawing away" (пилит) plays on the idiom for nagging/scolding, applied here to an unidentified acquaintance's marriage.