baniak
baniak noun: a fool.
Noun
baniak (plural baniaks)
- A fool.
- ‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile
- [footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.1981, Andrew Suknaski, Dennis Cooley, “In the name of Narid: new poems”, in Porcupine, Quill, page 114
Examples of baniak in a sentence
- “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?1987: Janice Kulyk Keefer, “Unseen, the cuckoo sings at dawn”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second...
- A baniak a real woman would leave first chance.1987: Michael John Nimchuk, “The day my grandad died”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War...
- As someone said, that even one with a university degree, BA, could be called “Baniak”, or an empty pot, if that individual isolated himself from the community to which he naturally belonged.1995, Michael Ewanchuk, Reflections and reminiscences: Ukrainians in Canada, 1892-1992, M. Ewanchuk, page 36:
Forms of baniak
| plural | baniaks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | banyak |
| alternative form | buniak |
| alternative form | bunyak |
Origin of baniak
From Ukrainian баня́к (banják, “cooking pot”).
Questions about baniak
- What does baniak mean?
- Baniak means a fool.
- How do you use baniak in a sentence?
- “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?
- What part of speech is baniak?
- Baniak is a noun.
- What is the plural of baniak?
- The plural of baniak is baniaks.
Words near baniak in the dictionary
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