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Polish
Etymology
Generally considered a native innovation with reduplication.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔw̃fɛl
- Syllabification: fą‧fel
Noun
fąfel m pers
- (colloquial, humorous or dialectal, Far Masovian) ankle-biter (small child)
- Synonyms: berbeć, brzdąc, pędrak, szkrab
- (colloquial, humorous) bud (friend)
- Synonym: kumpel
Declension
Noun
fąfel m animal
- (colloquial) booger, bogey (piece of solid or semisolid mucus in the nostril)
- Synonyms: babol, koza, smark
- (colloquial) blotch, pimple
- Synonyms: krosta, pryszcz
Declension
References
Further reading
- fąfel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- fąfel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “fąfel”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 107