plusk

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Polish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 
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  • Rhymes: -usk
  • Syllabification: plusk

Noun

plusk m inan

  1. splash, plop (sound)
  2. (hunting) beaver's tail
  3. (rare) caudal fin, tailfin (of a fish)
  4. (Southern Greater Poland) Synonym of ulewa (“downpour”)
  5. (obsolete or dialectal, Southern Greater Poland, Kuyavia) rain; bad weather

Declension

Declension of plusk
singular plural
nominative plusk pluski
genitive plusku plusków
dative pluskowi pluskom
accusative plusk pluski
instrumental pluskiem pluskami
locative plusku pluskach
vocative plusku pluski

Interjection

plusk

  1. splash, plop

Further reading

  • plusk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • plusk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “plusk”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 31
  • Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “plusk”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 14
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