kacyk
Appearance
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kacyk m pers
- cacique (tribal chief)
- (colloquial, derogatory) an official, especially provincial, who abuses his authority or uses his position for personal gain
- 1998, Ryszard Kapuściński, “Wykład o Ruandzie [A lecture on Rwanda]”, in Heban [The Shadow of the Sun], Czytelnik, →ISBN, page 184:
- Ot, małe zagubione w górach na dalekim kontynencie państewko, rządzone przez żarłoczną familię chciwych, despotycznych kacyków.
- So, a little nation somewhere in the mountains of a distant continent, ruled by a greedy family of voracious, despotic petty chieftains. [trans. by Klara Glowczewska]
Declension
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Noun
[edit]kacyk m animal
- New World oriole (bird of the genus Icterus)
Declension
[edit]Declension of kacyk
Further reading
[edit]- kacyk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kacyk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- kacyk on the Polish Wikipedia.Wikipedia pl
- kacyki on the Polish Wikipedia.Wikipedia pl
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