kacagjel
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Albanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From kaca- + gjel (“rooster, cock”).[1][2] Given that boastfulness is a characteristic usually ascribed to roosters rather than ants, it seems that sense 2 developed parallelly from the original meaning of gjel rather than from sense 1.
Noun
[edit]kacagjel m (plural kacagjela, definite kacagjeli)
- large dark-red ant. carpenter ant (Camponotus)
- Synonym: kaposh
- (derogatory) haughty, bumptious person
- Synonym: mburravec
Derived terms
[edit]Adverb
[edit]kacagjel
- (derogatory) haughtily, bumptiously
- Synonym: kacagjelthi
- rri kacagjel ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- ecën kacagjel ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)