podszczypywać

From podszczypać +‎ -ywać. First attested in 1856.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɔt.ʂt͡ʂɘˈpɘ.vat͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: pod‧szczy‧py‧wać

podszczypywać impf (perfective podszczypać or podszczypnąć)

1. (transitive, colloquial) to pinch (to sneakily squeeze someone's skin to show one's interest)
2. (transitive, colloquial, of animals) to hold lightly in one's maw as a sign of play or aggress (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
3. (transitive, colloquial) to rip off (to tear a bit of something off with one's teeth or fingers)
4. (transitive, colloquial, of one's skin) to sting (to be a place where one senses stinging or temporary burning)
5. (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to cause a short sensation of stinging, burning pain)
6. (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to hurt emotionally by criticizing)
7. (transitive, obsolete, rare) to pinch from underneath; to pinch from the bottom of something

• podszczypywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• podszczypywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podszczypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 425
• podszczypywać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego