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<h2 id="sample-vocabulary">Sample vocabulary</h2> <ul><li><i>Adela</i>: prostitute (from Polish)</li> <li><i>Adinoczka</i>: a single prison cell (from Russian)</li> <li><i>Ajencel</i>: a single prison cell (from German)</li> <li><i>Ajnbrunch</i>: breaking into a cash register (from German)</li> <li><i>Dzieci naczelnika</i>: lice (from Polish)</li> <li><i>Frajer</i>: an outsider, someone who does not speak Grypsera (from Yiddish)</li> <li><i>Giwera</i>: gun (from Yiddish)</li> <li><i>Gold</i>: to welcome someone (from English)</li> <li><i>Kulak</i>: economic criminal (from Russian)</li> <li><i>Ogrodnik</i>: village thief (from Polish)</li> <li><i>Pinkel</i>: stolen money or goods from a crime (from German)</li> <li><i>Pokupka</i>: theft (from Russian)</li> <li><i>Pomarańczyk</i>: homosexual (from Polish)</li> <li><i>Return</i>: self-defense of criminals against police officers (from English)</li> <li><i>Szopenfeld</i>: theft committed in a shop while the shop assistant is present (from Yiddish)</li></ul> <p>Source: <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Ciechanowska, Anna; kleparski, Grzegorz Andrzej (December 31, 2015). "On the semantic features of prison slang". Token: A Journal of English Linguistics. 4. Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce: 59–63. Retrieved 28 August 2022. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HbDQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HbDQAAQBAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"grypsera - Encyklopedia PWN". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN. Retrieved 27 March 2018. <a href="https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/grypsera;3908413.html" target="_blank">https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/grypsera;3908413.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Rodasik, Radosława; Ćwiertnia, Ewelina; Zat’ko, Jozef (January–June 2013). "Język podkultury więziennej – gwara. język migowy, tatuaż" (PDF). Kultura Bezpieczeństwa. Nauka – Praktyka – Refleksje (in Polish). 13. Wyższa Szkoła Bezpieczeństwa Publicznego i Indywidualnego „Apeiron” w Krakowie: 119–127. ISSN 2299-4033. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212754/http://kultura-bezpieczenstwa.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/7-R.-Rodasik.pdf" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20180327212754/http://kultura-bezpieczenstwa.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/7-R.-Rodasik.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Ciechanowska, Anna; kleparski, Grzegorz Andrzej (December 31, 2015). "On the semantic features of prison slang". Token: A Journal of English Linguistics. 4. Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce: 59–63. Retrieved 28 August 2022. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HbDQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HbDQAAQBAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Baicchi, Annalisa (2017). Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 187–188. ISBN 9781527500396. <a href="9781527500396" target="_blank">9781527500396</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Ciechanowska, Anna; kleparski, Grzegorz Andrzej (December 31, 2015). "On the semantic features of prison slang". Token: A Journal of English Linguistics. 4. Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce: 59–63. Retrieved 28 August 2022. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HbDQAAQBAJ" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=o3HbDQAAQBAJ</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>