pech
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Scots pech, apparently of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
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Verb
pech (third-person singular simple present peches, present participle peching, simple past and past participle peched)
- (Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.
- 1913, John Buchan, Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, page 136:
- An' as they breisted the lang lang hill / The puir horse graned and peched.
- 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 321:
- Then Chris saw Bruce, the porter, come in, with the mark on his jaw where his godfather hit him, then Leslie, the smith, paiching and sweating, he dropped his stick with an awful clatter.
- 1954, Robin Jenkins, The Thistle and the Grail, 1994, page 225:
- She peched and had to rest often.
- 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 207:
- When Graham reached him, however, he felt so exhausted he could not immediately explain; he had to sit on the ground, peching like a seal.
- 1994, James Kelman, How Late it Was, How Late:
- If he could just stop breathing and listen but he was peching too much from the climb.
- 1913, John Buchan, Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall, page 136:
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Pech
Noun
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Synonyms
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
From German Pech (“bad luck; pitch, tar”), from Old High German peh, from Latin pīx. Doublet of inherited Dutch pek (“pitch”). Also cognate with English pitch.
The sense “breakdown” is a Dutch innovation. It is probably modelled on the word ongeluk, which means both “bad look, misfortune” and “accident”. Since pech typically denotes a lesser kind of bad luck, it came to be used for a lesser kind of traffic accident too. German uses Panne instead; compare Dutch panne.
Pronunciation
Noun
pech m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pech (plural pechek)
- bad luck, misfortune
- Synonym: balszerencse
- Antonyms: szerencse, mázli
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | pech | pechek |
accusative | pechet | pecheket |
dative | pechnek | pecheknek |
instrumental | pechhel | pechekkel |
causal-final | pechért | pechekért |
translative | pechhé | pechekké |
terminative | pechig | pechekig |
essive-formal | pechként | pechekként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | pechben | pechekben |
superessive | pechen | pecheken |
adessive | pechnél | pecheknél |
illative | pechbe | pechekbe |
sublative | pechre | pechekre |
allative | pechhez | pechekhez |
elative | pechből | pechekből |
delative | pechről | pechekről |
ablative | pechtől | pechektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
peché | pecheké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
pechéi | pechekéi |
Possessive forms of pech | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | pechem | pecheim |
2nd person sing. | peched | pecheid |
3rd person sing. | peche | pechei |
1st person plural | pechünk | pecheink |
2nd person plural | pechetek | pecheitek |
3rd person plural | pechük | pecheik |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Polish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Pech.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- misfortune (“bad luck”)
Declension
Usage notes
- Rarely used in the plural.
Citations
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Synonyms
Antonyms
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Further reading
Scots
Etymology
Imitative.
Pronunciation
Verb
pech (third-person singular simple present pechs, present participle pechin, simple past pecht, past participle pecht)
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