podszczypywać
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Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From podszczypać + -ywać. First attested in 1856.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]podszczypywać impf (perfective podszczypać or podszczypnąć)
- (transitive, colloquial) to pinch (to sneakily squeeze someone's skin to show one's interest) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what part of the body’]
- (transitive, colloquial, of animals) to hold lightly in one's maw as a sign of play or aggress (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what part of the body’] [with za (+ accusative) ‘by what’]
- (transitive, colloquial) to rip off (to tear a bit of something off with one's teeth or fingers)
- (transitive, colloquial, of one's skin) to sting (to be a place where one senses stinging or temporary burning)
- (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to cause a short sensation of stinging, burning pain)
- (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to hurt emotionally by criticizing)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) to pinch from underneath; to pinch from the bottom of something
Conjugation
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- podszczypywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- podszczypywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podszczypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 425
- podszczypywać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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