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Polish
Etymology
From skurczyć + -y- + pałka.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -awka
- Syllabification: skur‧czy‧pał‧ka
Noun
skurczypałka m pers or f
- (archaic, colloquial, sometimes vulgar) Synonym of skurczybyk
- (Near Masovian) Synonym of nędzarz
Declension
Masculine declension:
Declension of skurczypałka
Feminine declension:
Declension of skurczypałka
Further reading
- skurczypałka in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- skurczypałka in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “skurczypałka”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 370