yağcı
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish یاغجی (yağcı, “dealer in oil, grease or butter”), equivalent to yağ (“oil, grease, butter”) + -cı.
Noun edit
yağcı (definite accusative yağcıyı, plural yağcılar)
- oil extractor or seller
- person who lubricates machines
- person who lubricates wrestlers during a match
- (figuratively) sycophant, flatterer
- Synonym: dalkavuk
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yağcı”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5154