The story
- Polish · derived frompuszka“can”
- Yiddish · borrowed fromפּושקע“tin can, tzedakah box”
- English todaypushke
Borrowed from Yiddish פּושקע (pushke, “tin can, tzedakah box”), from Polish puszka (“can”). Ultimately a doublet of box and pyxis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.