picować

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈt͡sɔ.vat͡ɕ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔvat͡ɕ
  • Syllabification: pi‧co‧wać

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps borrowed from German putzen + -ować. If so, then a doublet of pucować.

Verb

picować impf

  1. (transitive, colloquial) to blag, to fib (to deceive)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oszukać
  2. (transitive, colloquial) to pimp out (to make showy improvements to)
  3. (reflexive, colloquial) to dress up (to put on special or fancy clothes)
    Synonym: stroić się
Conjugation
Derived terms
verbs
  • odpicować pf
  • odpicowywać impf
adverb
nouns
  • pic
  • picer
  • picuś

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Polish picować. By surface analysis, pica + -ować.

Verb

picować impf

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) to forage (to demand food for the army from the local population)
Conjugation
Derived terms
noun
  • picownik

Further reading

  • picować in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • picować in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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