heittää häränpyllyä

Finnish

Etymology

From heittää (“to throw (oneself); swerve”) + häränpyllyä (“forward roll; (like) the buttocks of an ox”).

Verb

heittää häränpyllyä

1. (humorous) to perform forward rolls
2. (informal, idiomatic) to appear (totally or partly) illogical

Conjugation

See heittää. Häränpyllyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.