podszczypywać

From podszczypać +‎ -ywać. First attested in 1856.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɔt.ʂt͡ʂɘˈpɘ.vat͡ɕ/

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• Rhymes: -ɘvat͡ɕ
• Syllabification: pod‧szczy‧py‧wać

podszczypywać impf (perfective podszczypać or podszczypnąć)

1. (transitive, colloquial) to pinch (to sneakily squeeze someone's skin to show one's interest) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what part of the body’]
2. (transitive, colloquial, of animals) to hold lightly in one's maw as a sign of play or aggress (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?) [with w (+ accusative) ‘what part of the body’] [with za (+ accusative) ‘by what’]
3. (transitive, colloquial) to rip off (to tear a bit of something off with one's teeth or fingers)
4. (transitive, colloquial, of one's skin) to sting (to be a place where one senses stinging or temporary burning)
5. (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to cause a short sensation of stinging, burning pain)
6. (transitive, colloquial) to sting (to hurt emotionally by criticizing)
7. (transitive, obsolete, rare) to pinch from underneath; to pinch from the bottom of something

• podszczypywać in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• podszczypywać in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “podszczypywać”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 425
• podszczypywać in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego