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Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛxtat͡ɕ
- Syllabification: brech‧tać
Verb
brechtać impf (perfective zabrechtać or zbrechtać)
- (transitive, Chełmno-Dobrzyń) to dirty (to cause to be dirty)
- Synonym: brudzić
Verb
brechtać impf
- (reflexive with się, slang) to laugh, to guffaw
- (reflexive with się, Far Masovian) to splash
- Kacki brzechco się w stawie, bedzie fala. ― Ducks are splashing in the pond, there's going to be a pond..
Further reading
- Antoni Krasnowolski (1879) “brechtać”, in Album uczącéj się młodzieży polskiéj poświęcone Józefowi Ignacemu Kraszewskiemu z powodu jubileuszu jego pięćdziesięcioletniéj działalności literackiéj (in Polish), Lviv: Czytelni Akademickiéj Lwowskiéj; "Gaz. Narod." J. Dobrzańskiego i K. Gromana, Słowniczek prowincjalizmów zebranych w ziemi chełmińskiej i świeckiej, page 299
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “brechtać”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 103