pula.
to tinker, to potter
Meaning & usage
to tinker, to potter
to stuff (press, compressing or scrunching)
Han pulade ner papperslappen i fickan
to rub snow in someone's face
Where this word comes from
From dialectal pula (“work, toil, pound, hit, have sex, mate, and more”). Compare Danish pule, Icelandic púla. Perhaps the same word as Middle Low German pulen (“extricate with the fingers”), and cognate with Old English pullian (“to pluck, pull”). See also pulla (“finger”).
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