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Hungarian
Etymology
Lexicalization of cső (“cob”) + -stül (“together with”), originally referring to kukoricacső (“corncob”) (that is, not only the grains).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: csős‧tül
Adverb
csőstül (not comparable)
- aplenty, galore, in spades, in droves, thick and fast (in large measure, all at once)
- Synonyms: tömegesen, tömegével, tömegestül, bőségesen, garmadával
Usage notes
It is often used with jön, szakad, hullik, száll, or (when the multitude is in the accusative) ont. With a negative subject like baj (“trouble”), it expresses “when it rains, it pours”.
Derived terms
Further reading
- csőstül in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- csőstül in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).