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corsage

Polish translation: bukiecik

19:43 Jan 30, 2002
English to Polish translations [PRO]
English term or phrase: corsage
flowers that a boy gives a girl to wear on a wrist during a ball, etc.
agusia
Local time: 18:00
Polish translation:bukiecik
Explanation:
bukiecik (balowy)

nie ma jakiejś specjalnej polskiej nazwy
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leff
Local time: 19:00
Grading comment
dziekuje
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4bukiecik
leff
4korsarka, albo piratka
WTLS


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
bukiecik


Explanation:
bukiecik (balowy)

nie ma jakiejś specjalnej polskiej nazwy

leff
Local time: 19:00
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in pair: 11240
Grading comment
dziekuje

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jakub Szacki: to były czasy...
6 mins
agree  Teresa Goscinska: a moze zostawic oryginalna nazwe z wyjasnieniem
59 mins
agree  Lota: bukiecik is very nice. with some explanatory notes.
1 hr
agree  darotob: W Polsce nigdy sie nie dawalo bukiecikow ktore panienki by nosily na reku - to amerykanski zwyczaj. bukiecik do noszenia na przegubie reki - no koledzy tlumacze padamy bo tego nie sposob prztlumaczyc bez opisu - i Lota ma racje ze bez wyjasnienia to jakos
1 hr
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
korsarka, albo piratka


Explanation:
How about going out on a limb, and coming up with something phonetically close and humorous?
Moze sie przyjmie?
Juz slysze jak Maciek mówi do Magdy, która zaprosil na stódniówke: "Mam dla ciebie bombowa piratke z fiolków!"
No i Magda mdleje z wrazenia. No i o to chodzi... ;)

WTLS
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PRO pts in pair: 150
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