Pessi
Appearance
See also: pessi
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of penalty + Lionel Messi
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛsi
Proper noun
[edit]Pessi
- (humorous, derogatory) Lionel Messi
- [2022 December 19, Kyle Bonn, “Why Lionel Messi is called Pessi”, in The Sporting News[1]:
- All they need is one crumb of ammunition and they'll go for miles. Such is how the nickname "Pessi" was born. As fans on Twitter look for any possible way to reduce Messi's incredible career to a punchline, they've come up with a reductive way to pretend that he's not one of the best players to ever step on a football pitch.]
Usage notes
[edit]- Used especially when he missed penalties.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the same origin as Pesonen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Pessi
- a Finnish surname
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Pessi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Pessi | Pessit | |
genitive | Pessin | Pessien | |
partitive | Pessiä | Pessejä | |
illative | Pessiin | Pesseihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Pessi | Pessit | |
accusative | nom. | Pessi | Pessit |
gen. | Pessin | ||
genitive | Pessin | Pessien | |
partitive | Pessiä | Pessejä | |
inessive | Pessissä | Pesseissä | |
elative | Pessistä | Pesseistä | |
illative | Pessiin | Pesseihin | |
adessive | Pessillä | Pesseillä | |
ablative | Pessiltä | Pesseiltä | |
allative | Pessille | Pesseille | |
essive | Pessinä | Pesseinä | |
translative | Pessiksi | Pesseiksi | |
abessive | Pessittä | Pesseittä | |
instructive | — | Pessein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics
[edit]- Pessi is the 2171st (tied with 5 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 381 individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Categories:
- English blends
- Rhymes:English/ɛsi
- Rhymes:English/ɛsi/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English humorous terms
- English derogatory terms
- English terms with quotations
- en:Football (soccer)
- en:Nicknames of individuals
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/esːi
- Rhymes:Finnish/esːi/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish surnames
- Finnish risti-type nominals