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

References

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