gombostű
التعريفات والمعاني
== Hungarian ==
=== Etymology ===
From gombos (“buttoned”) + tű (“pin”), from gomb (“button”) + -os (adjective-forming suffix).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [ˈɡomboʃtyː]
Hyphenation: gom‧bos‧tű
Rhymes: -tyː
=== Noun ===
gombostű (plural gombostűk)
ballhead pin, sewing pin, pin (a needle without an eye used for fastening)
Hypernym: tű
Coordinate term: varrótű
==== Declension ====
==== Derived terms ====
egy gombostűt se lehetett volna leejteni (“not enough room to swing a cat”, i.e., [there was] very little space (available), literally “not even a ballhead pin could have been dropped”)
=== Further reading ===
gombostű in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.