Meanings
plural Polandballs
- InternetslangspecificallylifestylePoland as a countryball.
- Synonym of countryball.
This Polandball comic sums it up better.
2014 September 11, Arunabh Saikia, “Why Some Calamities Are More Equal Than Others”, in The Newslaundry2 more examples
One comic, in which Poland flies into space and stops Russia using Crimea as a means of ramming the United States, has shot to the top of the charts in the Polandball sub-forum on Reddit.
2014 March 4, Emmet Ryan, “Polandball is Reddit's answer to Crimea crisis”, in The Daily Business Post, Businesspost.ie, retrieved 01 Nov 2014It’s also gotten attention from the Polish media. Gazeta Wyborcza reported on it (po polsku), and, on Culture.pl, Wojciech Oleksiak wrote an in-depth English analysis, including a presumably tongue-in-cheek guide to drawing a Polandball.
2015 May 2, Steven Hoffman, “How Polandball can of taking over internets”, in Krakow PostSynonyms: countryball
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of countryball.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*pleth₂-?
- Proto-Indo-European*pel-?
- Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂-
- Proto-Slavic*poľe
- Proto-Slavic*poľaninъ
- GermanPole
- EnglishPole
- Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*landą
- Proto-West Germanic*land
- Old Englishland
- Middle Englishlond
- Englishland
- EnglishPoland
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
- Proto-Germanic*balluz
- Old English*beall
- Middle Englishbal
- Englishball
- EnglishPolandball
From Poland + ball. Coined c. 2009.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Polandball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polandball
“Polandball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polandball. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Polandball,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polandball.
Source: Polandball on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.