heittää häränpyllyä
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From heittää (“to throw (oneself); swerve”) + häränpyllyä (“forward roll; (like) the buttocks of an ox”).
Verb
[edit]- (humorous) to perform forward rolls
- (informal, idiomatic) to appear (totally or partly) illogical
Conjugation
[edit]See heittää. Häränpyllyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.