een poets bakken

Dutch

Alternative forms
  • een pots bakken (obsolete)

Etymology

From poets. Literally, “to bake a joke/prank”. The form een pots bakken is older, but both date to the eighteenth century.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ən ˈputs ˌbɑ.kə(n)/

Verb

een poets bakken

  1. (intransitive, often with an indirect object) to play a joke (on) [from 18th c.]

Inflection
Conjugation of een poets bakken: see bakken.

Synonyms

Descendants
  • Afrikaans: 'n poets bak
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