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Polish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- Syllabification: by‧le jak
Adverb
byle jak (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) slapdash (in a hasty or careless manner)
- Synonyms: niedbale, niestarannie
Further reading
- byle jak in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- byle jak in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “byle jak”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 103