Definition of Polish

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Polish

Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.

The language of the Poles.

To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.

Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.

To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.

A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.

Anything used to produce a gloss.

Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

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Polish Quotations

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
Pope John Paul II

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
Michel de Montaigne

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.
Mike Krzyzewski

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.
Morihei Ueshiba

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
John Burroughs

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
Megan Fox

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.
Scott Caan

I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way.
Janice Dickinson

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
Bill Murray

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau

Polish Translations

Polish in Afrikaans is Pools
Polish in Dutch is Pools
polish in Dutch is schoensmeer
polish in French is polissent, polis, polir, tailler, polissons
Polish in French is Polonais
polish in French is polissez
polish in German is polieren, Politur, abschleifen
polish in Latin is levo, excolo
polish in Portuguese is lustrador
polish in Spanish is limpiar, crecer
polish in Spanish is acicalar
Polish in Spanish is polaco
Polish in Swedish is polsk
polish in Swedish is polera, putsmedel, blanka, polska, glans, polityr

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