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Polish
Etymology
From trzeć + -ica.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -it͡sa
- Syllabification: cier‧li‧ca
Noun
cierlica f
- device for breaking flax stalks
- (Kociewie, Malbork, derogatory) talkative or quarrelsome woman
Declension
Further reading
- cierlica in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Dr Nadmorski (Józef Łęgowski) (1889) “cierlica”, in “Spis wyrazów właściwych gwarze malborskiej i kociewskiej”, in Wisła. Miesięcznik Geograficzno-Etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 3 z.4, page 743