to fluff up, puff up (principally of birds, but also cats etc.) · to prance, boast, behave showily
çekim: geçmiş plusterte auf · ortaç aufgeplustert · şimdiki plustert auf · ulaç aufplusternd
eş: aufbauschen, aufblähen, aufsträuben, bauschen, plustern, sträuben
köken: 19th century, pleonastic compound from auf- + plustern (which latter already means the same thing).
aile: Aufplusterin, Aufplusterer, Aufplusterung
useless or worthless thing; a trinket
çekim: çoğul babioles
eş: amusette, breloque, bricole, brimborion, broutille, colifichet
köken: Borrowed from Italian babbola. The suffix is influenced by frequent forms such as bestiole, cabriole.
🔊 Mais surtout n'va pas dépenser plus qu'il ne faut. N'achète pas un tas de rubans et de babioles qui ne servent à rien.
🔊 Puis, dans ses voyages à la ville, elle brocanterait des babioles, que M. Lheureux, à défaut d'autres, lui prendrait certainement.
🔊 Je… C'est une longue histoire. Je cherche une babiole, un sphinx.
flourish · small talk
çekim: çoğul floreos
köken: Deverbal from florear.
to beat up, to fluff, to whip, to whisk (e.g. cream)
çekim: geçmiş взби́вший · ortaç взби́вший
köken: вз- (vz-) + бить (bitʹ)
🔊 Отби́тые в ми́ску и́ли в кастрю́лю я́йца посоли́ть, влить немно́го молока́ и взбить ло́жкой и́ли ви́лкой.
a chore, small job · something insignificant · a minor problem, something that went wrong
çekim: çoğul akkefietjes
eş: akkevietje
köken: First attested in the 1830s. Apparently a diminutive in -je or -tje. The first part might be borrowed from West Frisian akkefyt (“chore”), but the further origin is uncertain. The usual explanation connects it with Latin aqua vitae (“liquor, especially spice-flavored”); compare Norwegian akevitt, German Aquavit etc. However, the semantic development remains open to conjecture. An alternative…
to fluff (to make fluffy) · to soften (to make soft)
çekim: geçmiş afofei · ortaç afofado · şimdiki afofa
eş: aerar, quando, usar, injeção, ar, tornar
köken: From a- + fofo + -ar.
ενέργεια ή υποσχέσεις χωρίς ουσία ή κέρδος
Japonca 🔊 泡を吹く , 珍紛漢紛 /t͡ɕĩmpɯ̟̃ŋkã̠mpɯ̟̃ɴ/ unintelligible
köken: Imitation of spoken Chinese. The kanji are ateji (当(あ)て字(じ)).
🔊 ちんぷんかんぷんで分からない
drivel, nonsense
çekim: tamlayan dravels
köken: Inherited from Old Swedish drafl, likely from drav (“draff”).
🔊 Vilket dravel
burble, stammer, babble, mammering (unclear speech) · burble, gibberish, gobbledygook (complex or unclear statement) · gibberish, gobbledygook (complex or unclear statement)
çekim: çoğul bełkoty · tamlayan bełkotu
eş: kit, gadka szmatka, bzdura, nonsens
köken: Deverbal from bełkotać. For the semantic shifts, compare English burble.
🔊 Z jego ust dobywał się kompletny bełkot.
🔊 Takiego bełkotu jak od niej to już dawno nie słyszałem.
a very small amount (of something); a jot, an iota, a trifle, a modicum
çekim: çoğul hituset · tamlayan hitusen
köken: hitu + -nen
gibberish
çekim: çoğul hatmatilky · tamlayan hatmatilky
eş: ptydepe
Rumence 🔊 baliverne , fleacuri , nimicuri , puf (nötr) down (of feather) · peachfuzz (soft beard) · soft hair of some animals
çekim: çoğul pufuri · tamlayan pufului
köken: From a Slavic language, compare puh.
double Dutch, gibberish, jargon, nonsense (nonsensical talk, incomprehensible language)
çekim: çoğul halandzsák
köken: Coined by Frigyes Karinthy; first published in 1912.
aile: halandzsázik
steam, vapor · breath · foolishness, nonsense, absurdity
çekim: çoğul הֲבָלִים
köken: Compare Arabic هبل.
inflection of ineptia: · genitive/dative singular
down (soft, immature feathers)
çekim: çoğul dunene · tamlayan duns
köken: From Old Norse dúnn (“down”). Related to dyne.
Norveççe 🔊 galimatias , hybelkanin , kaudervelsk , tullprat , vrøvl
Bulgarca 🔊 безсмислица , мъх , пеня се , празни приказки , празнословие , пух /mɤx/ moss, bryophyte (non-vascular plant of clade Setaphyta, most commonly within phylum Bryophyta) · fuzz · down (feathers of a bird)
çekim: çoğul мъ́хове
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *mъxъ.
aile: мъ́хав, мъха́т, мъхли́в, мъхна́т, мъ́шец, мъху́га
Slovence 🔊 mucka , peniti se
to card
çekim: geçmiş cardei · ortaç cardado · şimdiki carda
köken: From cardo, from Latin carduus (“thistle”).
aile: carda, cardador
Galce 🔊 ewyn (eril) /ˈɛu̯.ɨ̞n/ foam, spume, froth · suds, lather, scum
çekim: çoğul ewynnau
köken: From Proto-Brythonic *öwɨn (compare Cornish ewon, Breton eon), from Proto-Celtic *ɸowinos (compare Old Irish úan (“foam”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pow-ino-.
aile: ewynnu, bwrw ewyn, malu ewyn, maeddu ewyn
fluff
çekim: çoğul ღინღლები · tamlayan ღინღლის
balderdash, gibberish, gobbledegook
çekim: çoğul galimatioj
köken: From Polish galimatias, Russian галиматья́ (galimatʹjá), English galimatias, German Gallimathias, all from French galimatias.
Makedonca 🔊 влас (eril) /vɫas/ fluff · thread (for spinning)
çekim: çoğul власи
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *volsъ.
aile: власеник, власеница, власест, власи, навласи, навласува, развласи, развласува, се власи
bullshit, crap
çekim: çoğul minchiati
köken: From Sicilian minchia.