hányódik

From hány (“to hurl”) +‎ -ódik (reflexive suffix).

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• Hyphenation: há‧nyó‧dik
• Rhymes: -oːdik

hányódik

1. (intransitive) to toss, to be tossed (around) (as a fleet on the ocean, or as a ship in heavy seas)

   Synonym: hánykolódik

   Active-voice counterpart: hány

   • 1956, János Pilinszky, Apokrif (“Apocrypha”), translation by Ted Hughes & János Csokits:

     De virrasztván a számkivettetésben, / mert nem alhatom akkor éjszaka, / hányódom én, mint ezer levelével, / és szólok én, mint éjidőn a fa:

     But keeping vigil in banishment / because that night / I cannot sleep I toss / as the tree with its thousand leaves / and at dead of night I speak as the tree:

2. (intransitive) to drift (to move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc; to move haphazardly without any destination)

   Synonyms: sodródik, vetődik

3. (intransitive) to kick around (to wander loose; to float around; to hang around)

   Synonym: kallódik

4. (intransitive, figurative, literary) to struggle or wrestle with oneself, hesitate, vacillate, waver, waffle

   Synonyms: vívódik, töpreng, ingadozik, tétovázik

• hányódik 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