pöfékel

Hungarian

Etymology

From an unattested onomatopoeic stem + -kel (frequentative suffix). Other words with the same stem: pöfög, pöfeteg.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpøfeːkɛl]
  • Hyphenation: pö‧fé‧kel

Verb

pöfékel

  1. (intransitive, somewhat humorous) to puff (to emit smoke in puffs; it can refer to a person while smoking cigarette or pipe, or to something such as a locomotive)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • pöfékelés

References

  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
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