Talk:papaláš

Really? I am Czech and I never heard it should have such meaning.--Juandev (talk) 20:29, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

What meaning are you familiar with? —Ruakh_TALK 21:28, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

At the Czech Wiktionary it is sourced with a reliable source. --Istafe (talk) 18:58, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

I see, I havent red the explanation in brackets.--Juandev (talk) 07:13, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

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Added by one native speaker, but disputed on the talk-page by another. —Ruakh_TALK 21:28, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Maybe he thought it means literally big cheese. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 21:57, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

FWIW, slovnik.cz has it as "big cheese", "heavy gun", "prominence", "big pot", "bashaw" and "big shot". - -sche (discuss) 20:37, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

The word definitely exists in Czech. The current definition of "big wheel" is made somewhat plausible by the following quotations:

• "Žádnej direktor a papaláš si neužije tolik co já se svou Zdeničkou.", in Muka obraznosti by Vladimír Páral, 1982
• "Vystřídá ho jiný papaláš a diktatura partajních bonzů zůstane." in Antipoučení by Ján Moravec, 1990
• "Jeden vládní papaláš byl tenisový fanda a neustále do mě hučel, abych vstoupila do strany a chodila na schůze" in Já jsem já by Martina Navrátilová, 1985
• "Z toho jsem usoudil, že tenhle Štěpán musel být nějaký důležitý papaláš a řekl jsem si, že se jeho příjmení musím nějak dozvědět" in Swing a svoboda za mřížemi by Zdeněk Novák, 2004

To find a Czech definition of "papaláš" by Dušan Šlosar, see google books:"PAPALÁŠ jako posměšný název"; I am not copying the definition here to avoid copyvio.

From how it seems to me (a native Czech speaker), "big wheel" is close enough, and can stay until the nominator Juandev (talk • contribs) clarifies why it is inaccurate and what an accurate definition would look like. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:04, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Resolved. Cited by Dan Polansky; RFV-passed (with a slightly revised idiomatic definition). - -sche (discuss) 07:32, 6 October 2012 (UTC)