parchant

Czech

Etymology

A change from the original panchart, which comes from the derisive Middle High German banchart, bankhart meaning left-sided, literally something like "a child born on a bench". Compare e.g. bastard, Gerhard, Reinhard, also e.g. the German Bank and the French suffix -ard.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈparxant]
  • Hyphenation: par‧chant

Noun

parchant m anim

  1. bastard (person born to unmarried parents)
    Synonym: levoboček
  2. bastard (objectionable person)
    Synonym: darebák

Declension

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Noun

parchant m inan

  1. (printing slang) misprint

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading
  • parchant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • parchant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • parchant in Internetová jazyková příručka
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