Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Oct 24, 2004 15:20
19 yrs ago
English term
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бадья
Возьми на время бадью, в которую макают дураков на деревенской ярмарке, и скажи, чтобы поставили ее перед зданием суда.
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Comment: "Спасибо, наверное, лучше не скажешь - коротко и ясно!"
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dUnk tank
Sorry, I can't explain this well in Russian.
It's a large vat (бассейн?) of water. A person (often a public figure doing this for charity) sits on a sort of "diving board" above the tank. People pay for an opportunity to thrown a ball at a target. It the ball hits the targe, the board retracts and the person falls into the tank, to the amusement of all
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Note added at 2004-10-24 15:53:15 (GMT)
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I believe this was also used as a form of public punishment in the colonial era of the US, and
this may be the more likely intended meaning: a person would be strapped to
such a \"diving board\" and lowered into a бак с водой until they were gasping for
air.
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Note added at 2004-10-24 16:01:58 (GMT)
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как форма наказания, чаще всего, \"dunking board\".
похож на форму высшей меры наказаний ведьм,
а в данном случае...до смерти!
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Note added at 2004-10-24 21:23:28 (GMT) Post-grading
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P.S. It would be wrong to give me the points since I didn\'t even
attempt to explain it in Russian. As an English-English question,
maybe...
Heck, I\'ve never heard of бадья! Баня, yes, but not бадья!
It's a large vat (бассейн?) of water. A person (often a public figure doing this for charity) sits on a sort of "diving board" above the tank. People pay for an opportunity to thrown a ball at a target. It the ball hits the targe, the board retracts and the person falls into the tank, to the amusement of all
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Note added at 2004-10-24 15:53:15 (GMT)
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I believe this was also used as a form of public punishment in the colonial era of the US, and
this may be the more likely intended meaning: a person would be strapped to
such a \"diving board\" and lowered into a бак с водой until they were gasping for
air.
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Note added at 2004-10-24 16:01:58 (GMT)
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как форма наказания, чаще всего, \"dunking board\".
похож на форму высшей меры наказаний ведьм,
а в данном случае...до смерти!
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Note added at 2004-10-24 21:23:28 (GMT) Post-grading
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P.S. It would be wrong to give me the points since I didn\'t even
attempt to explain it in Russian. As an English-English question,
maybe...
Heck, I\'ve never heard of бадья! Баня, yes, but not бадья!
Peer comment(s):
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Yuri Geifman
: бак с водой... мой племянник как-то раз таким образом свою училку искупал :-)
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Kirill Semenov
: nice explanation. I doubt we have anything similar in Russian culture. If I will able to find a wording for it, I'll add it to this comment or to the Asker's field :)
21 mins
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Sara Noss
: Also used in the UK & known as a 'ducking stool'. How I suffered in those days! ;-) http://www.godshaer.co.uk/duckingstool.htm
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Quite right, as I recalled later: "stool" is more likely than "board"
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Olga B
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Jack Doughty
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Irene N
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Discussion
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