rag, duster
→
spineless person
4 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| NEW Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Croatian | |
| lexeme | krpa | |
| meaning 1 | rag, duster | kuhinjska krpa dishrag |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | spineless person | prava krpa a real doormat |
| reference | HJP | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | rag | |
| meaning 1 | rag, duster | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | spineless person | |
| reference | NBARS | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Russian | |
| lexeme | тряпка | |
| meaning 1 | rag, duster | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | spineless person | Не будь тряпкой! |
| reference | BTS | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme | крпа (krpa) | |
| meaning 1 | rag, duster | крпа за под, крпа за прашину, крпа за судове floor cloth, dust cloth, dish cloth |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | spineless person | Dakle, ako si kraljica, onda si kraljica i sa krpom u jednoj <...> ruci Ako si krpa, i sama kruna sa glave ti klizi. So, if you are a queen, then you are a queen with a rag in one <...> hand. If you are a spineless person, the crown itself slips off your head. |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 601 CLARIN.SI | |
| comment | This word is also used to name 'something of low importance, of low value'. |
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