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Polish
Etymology
From mścić + -iwy.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ivɘ
- Syllabification: mści‧wy
Adjective
mściwy (comparative mściwszy, superlative najmściwszy, derived adverb mściwie)
- vengeful
- vindictive
- Synonym: pamiętliwy
- (Far Masovian) scrimpy
- Ale to mściwá kobiéta, ale téz zostawi po sobie pamiątke dzieciom. ― She is a scrimpy woman, but she also will leave something for her children to remember her by.
Declension
Declension of mściwy (hard)
Derived terms
Further reading
- mściwy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mściwy in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “mściwy”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 207