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Polish
Etymology
From słęp + -ić.
Pronunciation
Verb
słępić impf
- (transitive, Kuyavia, fishing) to drive fish into a three-netted fishing net (słęp)
- (transitive, Kuyavia, fishing) to scare fish hiding in sweet flag or in roots under the bank of a river or pond
Further reading
- Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “słępić”, 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 17