puska

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puska

1. piece

Borrowed from dialectal Swedish buska (standard Swedish buske).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuskɑ/,
• Rhymes: -uskɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): pus‧ka

puska (colloquial)

1. bush, shrub (plant)
2. bush (pubic hair)

• “puska”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• paksu

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pus‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

First attested around 1430. Arrived in the Hungarian language primarily via German and Slavic languages. Ultimately, from German which itself can be traced back to the Vulgar Latin buxis (“box”).

Compare German Büchse, Serbo-Croatian puška, Russian пушка (puška), Romanian pușcă.^[1]

puska (plural puskák)

1. rifle, gun

• puskás

Back-formation from puskázik (“to use a gun, to arm oneself”). First attested in 1887.^[1]

puska (plural puskák)

2. cheat sheet (a sheet of paper containing notes used without permission to assist on a test)

• puska 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

puska

1. Alternative spelling of puchka