dormous

Updated: May 24, 2025

He carried on his parable in Turkish: 'Muscov dormous, and illustrated his meaning by drawing his thumb with Masonic vigour across his windpipe. The words and the action together were meant to signify that the Russian was a hog and ought to have his throat cut Straightway up stood a little Greek with a 'Je suis Muscov, monsieur, and the captain promptly knocked him down.

David Christie Murray - The Making Of A Novelist: An Experiment In Autobiography

There were lifted eyebrows and cynical stares, but the young gentleman was not in a condition to regard these and he went on to cry: "muscove dormous!" signifying that a Russian was a hog, and drawing a masonic forefinger across his throat to indicate what, in his opinion, ought to be done with him.

David Christie Murray - Recollections: With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of: Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and: another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in: facsimile