Polandball

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UK, UK/ˈpəʊ.lənd.bɔːl/US, US/ˈpoɫ.ənd.bɔl/US, US/ˈpoʊ.lənd.bɔl/US, US, cot caught merger/ˈpoɫ.ənd.bɑl/

noun

Poland as a countryball.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounPolandball (plural Polandballs)

plural Polandballs

  1. InternetslangspecificallylifestylePoland as a countryball.
  2. 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 Newslaundry
    2 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 2014

    It’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 Post

    Synonyms: countryball

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of countryball.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleth₂-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pel-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₂-
  4. Proto-Slavic*poľe
  5. Proto-Slavic*poľaninъ
  6. GermanPole
  7. EnglishPole
  8. Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
  9. Proto-Germanic*landą
  10. Proto-West Germanic*land
  11. Old Englishland
  12. Middle Englishlond
  13. Englishland
  14. EnglishPoland
  15. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-
  16. Proto-Germanic*balluz
  17. Old English*beall
  18. Middle Englishbal
  19. Englishball
  20. EnglishPolandball

From Poland + ball. Coined c. 2009.

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Cite this entry
APA

Polandball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polandball

MLA

“Polandball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polandball. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Polandball,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Polandball.

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