heittää häränpyllyä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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From heittää (to throw (oneself); swerve) + häränpyllyä (forward roll; (like) the buttocks of an ox).

Verb

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heittää häränpyllyä

  1. (humorous) to perform forward rolls
  2. (informal, idiomatic) to appear (totally or partly) illogical

Conjugation

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See heittää. Häränpyllyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.