different between britzka vs britchka

English

Noun

britzka (plural britzkas)

1. Alternative form of britchka

English

Alternative forms

• britschka, britska, britshka, britzka, britzska

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (bri?ka), or its source, Polish bryczka, diminutive form of bryka (“carriage”), probably ultimately from Italian biroccio. Doublet of barouche.

Noun

britchka (plural britchkas)

1. (now historical) A type of horse-drawn carriage, with a foldable roof covering.
   • 1847, Xavier Hommaire De Hell, Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c, ch. 22:

     The appearance of our caravan was curious and grotesque. Our britchka was drawn by three camels, taken in tow by a man on foot.

   • 1854, Leo Tolstoy (trans. C. J. Hogarth), Boyhood, ch. 2 – The Thunderstorm:

     At length, Vassili got up and covered over the britchka, the coachman wrapped himself up in his cloak and lifted his cap to make the sign of the cross at each successive thunderclap, and the horses pricked up their ears and snorted.

   • 2002, Michael Hofmann, translating Josepth Roth, The Radetsky March, Folio Society 2015, p. 158:

     The conveyance stopped, a straw-coloured britshka, the summer conveyance of Count Chojnicki.

Synonyms

• brisky

References

• britchka at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.