sipirc

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

A playful derivation from sicc (“shoo”). Originally, it was a dialectal exclamation used to drive away cats.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈʃipirt͡s]
Hyphenation: si‧pirc
Rhymes: -irt͡s

Interjection edit

sipirc

(colloquial, humorous) off you go! out/off with you! scram!
(dialectal) shoo! (an exclamation used to drive away cats)

References edit

^ sipirc in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading edit

sipirc in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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