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polka

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpɒl.kə//
  • United States//ˈpoʊ(l)kə//

A lively dance originating in Bohemia.

noun

  1. 1

    A lively dance originating in Bohemia.

  2. 2

    The music for this dance.

  3. 3

    A polka jacket.

    a young lady in a grey polka

Etymology

Via French and German from Czech polka, variant of půlka (“half”) as in "half-step"; see půl (“half”).

verb

  1. 1

    To dance the polka.

Forms

plural
polkas
past tense
polkaed
past participle
polkaed
present participle
polkaing
third person singular
polkas
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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).