pöfékel

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Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested onomatopoeic stem + -kel (frequentative suffix). Other words with the same stem: pöfög, pöfeteg.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: pö‧fé‧kel
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

pöfékel

  1. (intransitive, somewhat humorous) to puff (to emit smoke in puffs; it can refer to a person while smoking cigarette or pipe, or to something such as a locomotive)

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References

  1. ^ pöfékel in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

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