THE CULTURE TRIP on HUNGARIAN PHRASES including PUMPKIN
Excerpt: Tök (tewk)
Meaning : Very (literally 'pumpkin'
In addition to the wide variety of pumpkins grown on Hungarian soil, the local language is also flush with the tasty squash. Often used to mean 'very' the phrase is an endearing intensifier to add emphasis to your sentences. You can be tok bolddog (pumpkin happy), tok szomoru (pumpkin sad) or things can be tok jo rossz (pumpkin good - bad). After all, why limit pumpkins to your dinner plate?
