lebőg

Hungarian

Etymology

le- + bőg

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛbøːɡ]
  • Hyphenation: le‧bőg
  • Rhymes: -øːɡ

Verb

lebőg

  1. (transitive, literary, rare) to boo, howl down (to silence someone yelling in a loud, harsh tone)
    Synonyms: lehurrog, elhallgattat
  2. (intransitive, slang) to bomb, fall flat on one's face (to fail dismally, to experience defeat)
    Synonyms: leég, felsül, kudarcba fullad

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • lebőgés

Further reading

  • lebőg 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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