жмур m [žmur]
Corpse, dead body, stiff. Derived from the verb жмуриться (to squint, to close one’s eyes), referencing the closed eyes of a deceased person. In modern Russian, it is a well-known slang noun used mostly in criminal, medical, or dark humorous contexts to refer to a dead body.
Воскресить жмура нереально… можно лишь сделать зомби.
Resurrecting a corpse is unrealistic… you can at most get a zombie.
(Стоит Попробовать @ rimforum.ru, 03/2010)
жмурик m [žmurik]
Stiff, corpse, dead body, cadaver. Derived from the Russian verb жмуриться (to squint, to close one’s eyes), directly referencing the closed eyes of a deceased person. In everyday street, criminal, and medical/law enforcement slang, it is a highly common, darkly humorous, and cynical noun for a dead body (в кустах нашли какого-то жмурика — “they found some stiff in the bushes”).
Голос мне поведал о том, что кроме обычных врачей оказывается имеются доктора для жмуриков, патологоанатомы зовутся.
A voice told me that besides regular doctors there are doctors for stiffs, they’re called pathologists.
(Assia-san @ diary.ru, 07/2010)
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