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Kubyshka
Kubyshka is an early East Slavic ceramic jar or pot with narrow hole, short or absent neck and wide, rounded body.〔КУБЫ́ШКА, in: ''Словарь русского языка в 4-х томах'' (:ru:Малый академический словарь) (''A Dictionary of Russian Language''), Moscow, Русский язык, 1999.〕 In the past the term ''kubyshka'', a diminutive derivation from the word ''Куб'' (''kub'') in the generic meaning of "container",〔Article "Куб" in: Max Vasmer, 'Etymological dictionary of the Russian language''〕 had a broader meaning of various rounded containers, e.g. a barrel〔 or birch bark kubyshka.〔Vladimir Dahl, ''Толковый словарь живого великорусского языка''〕
The word has became associated with buried hoards〔A footnote in: ''The Nuclear Deception: Nikita Khrushchev and the Cuban Missile Crisis'', (p. 136 )〕 and is used in a number of idioms associated with hoarding or reserve saving (держать в кубышке (keep in a kubyshka), класть в кубышку (put into a kubyshka), etc.).
The word is also used as a euphemism or a nickname for a short, plump person.〔James B. Woodward, ''Gogol's "Dead Souls"'' (p. 179 )〕 For example, in Sergei Prokofiev's ballet ''Cinderella'', a wicked stepsister's nickname Kubyshka was variously translated as Fatty,〔''Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography'', (p. 419 )〕 Dumpy, etc. Princess Anastasia, the daughter of tsar Nicholas II of Russia was nicknamed "Kubyshka". ''〔Helen Rappaport, ''The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg'', (p. 82 )〕
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