"Everyone knows he cheats at golf. He likes to win, you see, even thought he's not very good.
Hasn't he been club champion in one of his clubs since it opened? It's almost putinesque [sic]. Speaking of which, I was a bit disappointed that the article on putin's [sic] ice-hockey antics had its comments closed after only an hour. For some reason, the Guardian seems reluctant to criticise that russian [sic] gangster. I always find such comments funny, because all the botskis come out of the woodwork to defend him."
(From The Guardian's reader forum.)
I read "botskis" as an ad hoc neologism formed from the noun "bot" (a malicious automated internet program) and the suffix "ski" common in Russian family names, followed by "s" to make that noun plural.
Is my reading of "botskis" correct?
I think that's probably correct.
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tkacka15Is my reading of "botskis" correct?
You've got my vote too. It sounds like a reasonable explanation.
CJ