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  What it means

  A colloquial intensified insult — a “total sucker” or “complete mug.” ‘Frajer’ alone means a naive person who gets taken advantage of; ‘pompka’ amplifies it for comic or emphatic effect.

  Vocabulary

  • frajer — sucker, mug, naive fool (slang)
  • pompka — pump (used here as an intensifier, slang)

  Grammar note

  A noun-noun compound used as an insult. Both words are masculine nominative. 'Pompka' functions as an emphatic suffix-like addition rather than carrying its literal meaning.

  Cultural context

  Typical of Polish colloquial speech where a second noun is added for comic emphasis. Similar constructions: 'głupek pompka', 'leszcz pompka'.

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