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Polish

adjectivenouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpəʊlɪʃ//
  • United States//ˈpoʊlɪʃ//

Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.

    Vinokur pulled the trigger a second and third time. "You're lying, you Polish cunt!" he screamed.

    As we mentioned the only chemical used in Polish meats or sausages was potassium nitrate even though the list of food additives allowed in Europe was long and impressive.

    “There’s a sense of betrayal,” said the former Hamtramck mayor Karen Majewski, who is Polish American.

    A far-right Polish MP has extinguished candles on a menorah lit for Hanukah in Poland’s parliament, disrupting proceedings before a planned vote of confidence in the new government.

Etymology

From Pole + -ish. Doublet of Poylish.

noun

  1. 1

    The language spoken in Poland.

    The big advantage of learning Russian is that, once you’re proficient, you can understand other Slav languages such as Czech, Polish or Bulgarian.

  2. 2

    A breed of chickens with a large crest of feathers.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).