What does the name Padalina mean?

gumishu:

it is not nice - if it is meant that way - but Padlina a nickname may come from a verb padać (to fall) - if she drinks heavily it is not difficult to imagine she often has difficulty walking (especially climbing stairs) - further on it is not easy to imagine that they have witnessed her falling over/down while drunk - in that case the nickname they gave her maybe just a sort of word play (padać - upadła - padlina) - in this case it is not as malicious/vile as it first seems - such word-play nicknames are quite common with Poles by the way (I give 70 per cent probability that my explanation fits the reality)

cableThreads: 7 Posts: 64 Joined: Mar 10, 09	Sep 30, 09, 12:10 / #
Hi My Polish friends have a joke going about a women who rents a room in their house. She drinks very heavily and they all call her 'Padadlina' as a joke. What does this name mean, i'm intrigued?

AmberRouteThreads: 2 Posts: 9 Joined: Sep 29, 09	Sep 30, 09, 12:16 / #
Are you sure it is 'Padadlina' not 'Padlina"?

cableThreads: 7 Posts: 64 Joined: Mar 10, 09	Sep 30, 09, 12:23 / #
Yes, sorry I think you're right!! Padlina!! Any ideas why they call her this a s her real name is Goskia

AmberRouteThreads: 2 Posts: 9 Joined: Sep 29, 09	Edited by: AmberRoute Sep 30, 09, 12:30 / #
Well it is not so funny afretall. Padlina means carcass, which is a dead body laying somewhere . Try typing in PADLINA in google images, you will see what's that

cableThreads: 7 Posts: 64 Joined: Mar 10, 09	Sep 30, 09, 12:32 / #
AmberRoute I agree that's not very nice!

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09	Sep 30, 09, 20:41 / #
cable: I agree that's not very nice! it is not nice - if it is meant that way - but Padlina a nickname may come from a verb padać (to fall) - if she drinks heavily it is not difficult to imagine she often has difficulty walking (especially climbing stairs) - further on it is not easy to imagine that they have witnessed her falling over/down while drunk - in that case the nickname they gave her maybe just a sort of word play (padać - upadła - padlina) - in this case it is not as malicious/vile as it first seems - such word-play nicknames are quite common with Poles by the way (I give 70 per cent probability that my explanation fits the reality)

OsiedleRuda	Sep 30, 09, 20:46 / #
It's not very nice but gówniarka is worse :)

pawianThreads: 90 Posts: 5,387 Joined: May 30, 08	Sep 30, 09, 21:51 / #
gumishu: it is not nice - if it is meant that way - but Padlina a nickname may come from a verb padać (to fall) - if she drinks heavily it is not difficult to imagine she often has difficulty walking (especially climbing stairs) - further on it is not easy to imagine that they have witnessed her falling over/down while drunk - in that case the nickname they gave her maybe just a sort of word play (padać - upadła - padlina) - in this case it is not as malicious/vile as it first seems - such word-play nicknames are quite common with Poles by the way (I give 70 per cent probability that my explanation fits the reality) I agree with this clever explanation. Good work, gumish.

cableThreads: 7 Posts: 64 Joined: Mar 10, 09	Oct 1, 09, 11:51 / #
OsiedleRuda: gówniarka What does that mean? I've tried to translate but to no avail ;-(

gumishuThreads: 17 Posts: 3,943 Joined: Apr 6, 09	Edited by: gumishu Oct 1, 09, 12:44 / #
gówniarka is rather uncommon I'd say - one can say it is a derivative of gówniara gówniara is common though (just as gówniarz which is the same but for a male) gówniara is an epithet to emphasise young age of a (female) person and thus her irresponsibility/insensibility and/or other in...ties ;) it is not always as derogatory as it apears at first, often not used with strong emotional overtone just slightly dissmisive (you can judge it by the tone and expression of the speaker) the word/name alludes to the person still shitting her pants (gówno is turd in Polish) some interesting word of similar meaning is 'gówniażeria' - which is a collective name to a bunch (set) of young (too young for ...,young and irresponsible, etc etc) individuals (of one or both sexes ;)

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,833 Joined: Apr 11, 08	Nov 3, 09, 23:53 / #
How about smarkateria which means about the same?