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Polish
Etymology
Instrumental of *gołek, from goły. Compare całkiem and chyłkiem.
Pronunciation
Adverb
gołkiem (not comparable)
- (Near Masovian) openly (lying somewhere uncovered)
- Pieniądze leżą gołkiem a nie w woreczku. ― The money is lying out in the open and not in the bag.
Further reading
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “gołkiem”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 364