füllent

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • fillent (archaic)

Etymology

From an unattested stem + -ent (instantaneous suffix).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfylːɛnt]
  • Hyphenation: fül‧lent
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Verb

füllent

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to fib, lie, talk big, draw the long bow (to give false information without ill intentions, more or less inconsequentially)
    Synonyms: hazudik, lódít, tódít

Conjugation

References

  1. füllent in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

Further reading

  • füllent 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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