dać nosa

Polish

Etymology

Literally, “to give [one's] nose”.

Pronunciation

Verb

dać nosa pf

  1. (intransitive, Northern Borderlands, Lithuania) to give an official excuse
    Synonym: nakleić nosa

Further reading

  • Jan Karłowicz (1903), “nos”, in Hieronim Łopaciński, Wacław Taczanowski, editors, Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 3: L do O, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.