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piiska.

crop (short whip)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpiːskɑ/[ˈpiːs̠kɑ̝]
  1. crop (short whip)

  2. ellipsis of piiska-auto (“black and white”) (police patrol car).

    abbreviation · alt-of · ellipsis · obsolete · slang
  3. perovskia

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Swedish piska (“whip”), from Middle High German picze, from Slavic (compare Polish bicz, Czech bič), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *bičь.

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