bakot lő

Hungarian

Etymology

From bak (“buck”) +‎ -ot (accusative suffix) +‎ lő (“to shoot”), literally “to shoot a buck”, a calque of German einen Bock schießen. Its origin in German is related to 16th century competitions organized in shooting associations where the lowest ranked shooter received a he-goat as a consolation prize.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈbɒkotløː]

Verb

bakot lő

  1. (idiomatic) to blunder (to make a blunder, to make a clumsy or stupid mistake)
    Synonyms: melléfog, téved, baklövést követ el

Conjugation
  • For the verb, see lő.
  • The inflected noun bakot remains unchanged.

References
  1. Forgács, Tamás. Magyar szólások és közmondások szótára (’Dictionary of Hungarian Idioms and Proverbs’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2004. →ISBN
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