Meanings
- offensiveraresometimesPolish (language)
'Da, is it? We don't speak Polski here, mate.'
2012 October 15, Conor Kostick, Move, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN
plural Polskis
- offensivesometimesA Pole (Polish person)
Insensitive to Little Bee's evident distress, the guard comments that he has been unable to 'compete with the Polskis ' for jobs in Britain and is now employed by a European corporation
2014 January 28, A. Woolley, Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century, Springer, →ISBN
- not comparableoffensiveraresometimesPolish
As they looked through them, they commented on the vehicles: that jeep was an ARO from Romania; that car was a Polski Fiat; the pick-up truck outside the mosque was a Polish Żuk.
2025 December 18, John Watkins, Enver Hoxha's Long Shadow: Travels in Albania, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN
Origin
- Polishpolski
- EnglishPolski
Borrowed from Polish polski, capitalized according to the standard rules of English demonyms. Popular usage influenced by -ski.
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Cite this entry
Polski. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polski
“Polski.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polski. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Polski,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polski.
Source: Polski on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.