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Hungarian
Etymology
From bak (“buck”) + -ot (accusative suffix) + lő (“to shoot”), literally “to shoot a buck”, a calque of German einen Bock schießen. Its origin in German is related to 16th century competitions organized in shooting associations where the lowest ranked shooter received a he-goat as a consolation prize.
Pronunciation
Verb
bakot lő
- (idiomatic) to blunder (to make a blunder, to make a clumsy or stupid mistake)
- Synonyms: melléfog, téved, baklövést követ el
Conjugation
- For the verb, see lő.
- The inflected noun bakot remains unchanged.
References
- ^ Forgács, Tamás. Magyar szólások és közmondások szótára (’Dictionary of Hungarian Idioms and Proverbs’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2004. →ISBN