pukacz

Polish

Etymology

From pukać (“to knock”) +‎ -acz, as these laborers packed hammers for knocking belonging to the warehouse for these harps.

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈpukat͡ʂ/

Noun

pukacz m pers

1. (Kuyavia) laborer who walks around villages in spring with a kind of harp on which he cleans flax seed for sowing

Further reading

• Józef Bliziński (1860) “pukacz”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 630
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “pukacz”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 276