bimbać

== Polish == === Etymology === Uncertain. According to Bańkowski, a variation of pimpać, from German das ist mir pimpe (“I don't give a fuck about this”). First attested in 1900. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -imbat͡ɕ Syllabification: bim‧bać === Verb === bimbać impf (colloquial or Zagórze, intransitive) to downplay, to trivialize, to make light of [with z (+ genitive) or na (+ accusative) ‘whom/what’] Synonyms: (literary) bagatelizować, lekceważyć bimbać (sobie) na władzę ― to trivialize authority bimbać (sobie) na wszystkich ― to make light of everyone bimbać (sobie) na wszystko ― to make light of everything bimbać (sobie) na zakazy ― to downplay restrictions bimbać (sobie) z ludzi ― to make light of people bimbać (sobie) z sądu ― to make light of a court bimbać (sobie) z prawa ― to make light of the law === Verb === bimbać impf (perfective przebimbać) (colloquial, intransitive) to loaf, to take it easy, to idle Synonyms: see Thesaurus:próżnować ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “bimbać”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “bimbać”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish) Józefa Kobylińska (2001), “bimbać”, in Marian Kucała, editor, Słownik gwary gorczańskiej (zagórzańskiej)‎[3] (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej, →ISBN, page 6