acting as if trying to get a rise out of someone, by making snide remarks or provoking them in some other way · similar behavior borne out of success, usually more teasing
çekim: karşılaştırma kaxigare · üstünlük kaxigast
köken: From kaxe (“bigwig, big shot, bully”) + -ig. First attested in 1836.
chicken · chick · cub, youngling, nestling, whelp, young of an animal, or less commonly of people
çekim: çoğul puilor · tamlayan puiului
köken: Inherited from Latin pullus, probably through a Vulgar Latin root *pulleus, or alternatively formed from the plural of an original Romanian form *pul. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *polH- (“animal young”). Compare Spanish pollo and Italian pollo.
any young animal, young, especially · any young animal, young, especially: · a foal
çekim: çoğul pullī · tamlayan pullī
köken: Disputed; two etymologies are plausible: * From Proto-Italic *polnos, from Proto-Indo-European *polH-on- (“offspring, (animal) young”); compare Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos, “foal; young girl”), Proto-Germanic *fulô (“foal”), Albanian pjellë (“child”) and pelë (“mare”), Old Armenian ուլ (ul, “kid, fawn”). The verbal root is likely found in Albanian pjell (“to beget”), which implies a connection to…