podszczypywać

== Polish == === Etymology === From podszczypać + -ywać. First attested in 1856. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pɔt.ʂt͡ʂɘˈpɘ.vat͡ɕ/ Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ Syllabification: pod‧szczy‧py‧wać === Verb === podszczypywać impf (perfective podszczypać or podszczypnąć) (transitive, colloquial) to pinch (to sneakily squeeze someone's skin to show one's interest) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what part of the body’] (transitive, colloquial, of animals) to hold lightly in one's maw as a sign of play or aggress (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what part of the body’] [with za (+ accusative) ‘by what’] (transitive, colloquial) to rip off (to tear a bit of something off with one's teeth or fingers) (transitive, colloquial, of one's skin) to sting (to be a place where one senses stinging or temporary burning) (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to cause a short sensation of stinging, burning pain) (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to hurt emotionally by criticizing) (transitive, obsolete, rare) to pinch from underneath; to pinch from the bottom of something ==== Conjugation ==== === References === === Further reading === “podszczypywać”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “podszczypywać”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish) A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podszczypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 425 podszczypywać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego