Two of the few strong opponents
of the fledgling 'soft' dictatorship in Hungary
are Mr Hungarian and Mr Goulash,
Magyar & Gulyás respectively.
I had hoped that Orbán
might mean something scary
like Bluebeard, or Jackal
(but, reading from an insert to the LP record sleeve
of Bartók's opera Kék szakáll we can assume that
szakáll is not Hungarian for Jackal,
and Wolf (a not uncommon surname
in many languages, e.g. McIntyre)
in Magyar being Farkas, a Hungarian form
of the Germanic Warg... Orbán
is just a surname. Mumus = Ogre, Bogeyman
is not.
But enough! I'll exit from this A.I.
rabbit-hole and admire the view.
The word for Shitface seems to be szararcú.
PAL:
ReplyDelete"partner, mate, chum, bro".
Slang, 1680s, said to be from Romaní (English Gypsy) pal "brother, comrade," a variant of continental Romaní pral, plal, phral, which are probably from Sanskrit bhrata "brother" (from PIE root *bhrater- "brother"). Colloquial extended form palsy-walsy is attested from 1930. Pally (adj.) is attested by 1895.
It is reliably reported (in The Guardian of the second of June, 2025, that sharks have pals.
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