gospocha

Polish

Etymology

Clipping of gospodyni + -cha.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔsˈpɔ.xa/
  • Rhymes: -ɔxa
  • Syllabification: gos‧po‧cha

Noun

gospocha f

  1. (colloquial, somewhat humorous) provident and hard-working hostess or landlady
    • 1897, Wiktor Teofil Gomulicki, Cudna mieszczka: obrazki starowarszawskie [Wonderful Bourgeoisie: Old Warsaw Pictures], quoted in Słownik języka polskiego pod redakcją Witolda Jana Doroszewskiego, Warszawa: Książnica Polska, published 1949, →OCLC, page 192:
      Księżna Anna jakby cale inną skórę przybrała. Rzekłby kto, że przez czary jakoweś w poczciwą, dobroduszną gospochę litewską przemieniona.
      Princess Anna seemed to have taken on a completely different skin. One could say that she was transformed into a kind and good-natured Lithuanian housekeeper by some kind of sorcery.

Declension

Declension of gospocha
singular plural
nominative gospocha gospochy
genitive gospochy gospoch
dative gosposze gospochom
accusative gospochę gospochy
instrumental gospochą gospochami
locative gosposze gospochach
vocative gospocho gospochy

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