скоф, шкоф, щкоф

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

I got a new job last week and there's a Russian woman who works in the office. Today when I came in she called me what I think sounded like "young-skoff." I think she was speaking a Runglish hybrid—"young" because I'm a 16-year-old working with all adults and then "skoff" some sort of Russian suffix. I believe it was positive. The American woman in the office knew what it meant, also, probably from working with the Russian woman for so many years. I would assume it's spelled one of these three ways: скоф, шкоф, щкоф, and is just a Russian diminutive (like Spanish -ito/cito, Japanese -chan, etc.)

Am I right?

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[corriel.livejournal.com]

I never heard of any "skoff" thing like that, but maybe it's something she made up herself from the "skoff/skov" ending which can be found at the end of some Russian surnames. For instance in French there's a slang word for Russian, it's "russkoff" (I don't know how it's spelt, it's slang anyway). If she knows u're interested in Russian maybe she called u that way for fun, ading some Russian sounding ending?

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that could be. In English people make "skov/skoff" jokes, too.

[irkin.livejournal.com]

Why don't you ask her? Probably she'd be glad to know you're so interested in Cyrillic and Russian.

I honestly can't think of any Russian word that would be similar to that one.

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[costumier.livejournal.com]

that's cool that you get to work with her...

how are you 16 working with all adults? just curious :-)

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a medical clinic so there aren't a lot of teens working there ;) I just help out in the medical records room so I don't have very much... Importance.

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[costumier.livejournal.com]

hmm... impressive. best to you...

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[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!