szemetel

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Hungarian

Etymology

szemét (garbage, rubbish) +‎ -el (verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: sze‧me‧tel
  • Rhymes: -ɛl

Verb

szemetel

  1. (intransitive) to litter, to scatter rubbish (to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it)
  2. (intransitive, only in 3rd person singular) to drizzle (to rain lightly; to shed slowly in minute drops or particles)
    Synonyms: szemerkél, csepereg, csöpörög

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Further reading

  • (to litter): szemetel 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
  • (to drizzle): szemetel 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