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пустя́к — meaning in English

pustyak

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English meaning

  • bagatelle noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
  • breeze noun A light, pleasant wind.
  • doddle noun A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
  • trifle noun A British dessert layered with sponge cake, custard, fruit, jelly, and whipped cream.
  • trinket noun A small decorative item, especially cheap jewelry, valued more for looks than worth.
  • trivia noun Small, unimportant facts or details, often obscure ones.

Senses

пустя́к is used for these senses in English:

  • bagatelle A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
  • breeze (figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
  • doddle (UK, Irish, Australia, informal) A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
  • for nothing For no reason.
  • trifle (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
  • trinket (figurative) A thing of little value; a toy, a trifle.
  • trivia Insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information; froth.
  • walk in the park (idiomatic) Something easy or pleasant.

bagatelle — full definition

  1. noun A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
  2. noun A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
  3. noun A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
  4. noun Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.

breeze — full definition

  1. noun A light, pleasant wind.
  2. noun Something that is very easy to do.
  3. verb To move somewhere quickly and confidently, without effort.

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