Noun: polka
| Singular | polka |
| Plural | polkas |
Sample Sentences
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a young lady in a grey polka [1872, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens:]
Nouns inflected like polka
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Via French and German from Czech polka, variant of půlka (“half”) as in "half-step"; see půl (“half”). See: Czech Nouns '
polka'.