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Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from French nigaud.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɘɡus
- Syllabification: ny‧gus
Noun
nygus m pers
- (colloquial or dialectal, Central Greater Poland) lazybones, layabout, skiver
- Synonyms: leń, obibok, wałkoń, próżniak, bumelant
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Further reading
- nygus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- nygus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Oskar Kolberg (1877) “nygus”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 21