heittää häränpyllyä

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From heittää (“to throw (oneself); swerve”) + häränpyllyä (“forward roll; (like) the buttocks of an ox”).

Verb[edit]

heittää häränpyllyä

  1. (humorous) to perform forward rolls
  2. (informal, idiomatic) to appear (totally or partly) illogical

Conjugation[edit]

See heittää. Häränpyllyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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