чу́кча

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nounmasculine & feminineanimatecountablefake feminine

1.
Chukchi, Chukchi manethnography
В посёлке живу́т чу́кчи и русские.
Chukchi and Russians live in the settlement.
Indigenous people of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (Чукотка), capital Anadyr (Анадырь). Animate noun; the female counterpart is чукчанка.
2.
(rare) Chukchi joke, lame joke, corny joke
Расскажи́ ещё оди́н чу́кча.
Tell another Chukchi joke.
Colloquial; declined as an inanimate noun in this sense. Refers to a stock Russian joke genre with a naive Chukchi as the hero.

Examples

На севере Чукотки живут чукчи и оленеводы.
The Chukchi and reindeer herders live in the north of Chukotka.
Мой дед — чукча, он всю жизнь прожил в Анадыре.
My grandfather is Chukchi; he lived in Anadyr all his life.
Он рассказал старый анекдот про чукчу, но никто не засмеялся.
He told an old joke about a Chukchi man, but nobody laughed.