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Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish wantuch.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɲtux
- Syllabification: wań‧tuch
Noun
wańtuch m inan (related adjective wańtuchowy)
- (somewhat archaic) thick hemp cloth
- Hypernym: płótno
- (somewhat archaic) bag made of such cloth
- Hypernym: worek
- (dialectal, figurative) paunch, potbelly
- Synonyms: bebech, bebzun, kałdun
Declension
Noun
wańtuch m pers
- (Far Masovian, figuratively) slob (clumsy person dressed uncleanly, as if they might wear a hemp bag)
Further reading
- wańtuch in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wańtuch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- wańtuch in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “wantuch”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “wantuch”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna
- Antoni Waga (1860) “wańtuch”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 759