chusta

Borrowed from Ukrainian хвуста (xvusta), from Romanian fustă, from Greek φούστα (foústa), from φουστάνι (foustáni), from Italian fustagni, plural of fustagno, from Medieval Latin fustaneum, from Latin fūstis.

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• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: chus‧ta

chusta f (diminutive chustka)

1. headscarf
2. (Przemyśl, in the plural) whites; clothing

   Bede chusty prała. ― I will be washing the laundry.

   Zabrał se chusty i poszed. ― He took the whites and left.

• chusta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chusta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “chusty”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 333

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• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃusta/ [ˈt͡ʃus.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -usta
• Syllabification: chus‧ta

chusta f (plural chustas)

1. piece of crap
2. (colloquial) fag butt