majomkodik

Hungarian

Etymology

majom (monkey) + -kodik (to behave as, verb-forming suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmɒjomkodik]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧jom‧ko‧dik
  • Rhymes: -odik

Verb

majomkodik

  1. (intransitive, colloquial, chiefly of children) to clown, monkey around, muck about, horse around (to behave like a monkey, grimacing mockingly, clowning around)
    Synonyms: bohóckodik, hülyéskedik, idétlenkedik
  2. (intransitive, colloquial, of an adult) to behave ridiculously/artificially/pretentiously

Conjugation

Further reading

  • majomkodik 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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