čobol

See also: Cobol and COBOL

Czech

Etymology

From Slovak čo bol ("what was" or "who was"), a very frequent collocation of words significantly different from their Czech equivalents (Czech co byl). Possibly associated with a catchphrase čo bolo, to bolo, terazky som majorom ("what's past is past, I am a major now") used by the character of Slovak Major Haluška in Miroslav Švandrlík's satirical novel Černí baroni.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃobol]

Noun

čobol m anim

  1. (derogatory, ethnic slur) Slovak (person)
    Synonyms: (derogatory) čobolák, (neutral) Slovák

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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