bąk
“bąk” is a Polish word. Its 18 meanings in English:
- horsefly (any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly))
- botfly, gadfly (any insect of the family Oestridae)
- bumblebee (insect similar to a bee, but much thicker and more densely haired, making a humming sound while flying)
- bittern (several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae)
- spinning top (a toy with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis, either with a built-in pump-action handle, with the fingers or with a string)
- squirt (small child)
- gyrostat; gyroscope; rotor; top (rigid body, usually with simple, geometric shapes, rotating rapidly around its axis of symmetry)
- dinghy (small rowboat; small boat next to larger sailing yachts)
- bellows replacement (device in a forge that replaces the bellows)
- mistake; error
- scape (onion stalk with seed capsule)
- swell (swollen place of an onion stem)
- scape (tops on onions and garlic; shoots, especially those that bear flowers)
- onion flower
- forgery (falsified tymf coin from the time of Augustus III of Poland)
- pipe; drone (pipes of a bagpipe as well as their sound)
- drafter (device for inducing draft in a chimney)
- tyrant (powerful and unjust person)
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