pucować
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adapted borrowing of German putzen + -ować. Perhaps a doublet of picować.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ
- Syllabification: pu‧co‧wać
Verb
[edit]pucować impf (perfective wypucować)
- (transitive, colloquial or dialectal, Far Masovian) to polish, to scrub, to shine (to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding)
- (reflexive with się, colloquial) to scrub oneself
Verb
[edit]pucować impf
- (reflexive with się, prison slang) to blag, to bluff (to give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oszukać
- (reflexive with się, prison slang) to confess, to admit
Conjugation
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Related terms
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Further reading
[edit]- pucować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Piotr Fliciński, Stanisław Wójtowicz, editors (2007), “pucować”, in Hip-Hop Słownik, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, page 141
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “pucować”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 119
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- Polish doublets
- Polish 3-syllable words
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