Gwarowy szkut ‘chłopak’ w polszczyźnie potocznej

The dialectal word szkut ‘boy’ in colloquial Polish Summary The subject of the article is the occurrence of dialectism ‘male child; boy’ in colloquial Polish. This word – despite its dialectal origin – is present in the statements of not only the users of the local dialect, but also of people who do not speak the dialect. The example material was excerpted mainly from the statements of Internet users posted on Internet forums. It seems that the lexeme is slowly stabilizing in colloquial language to the extent limited to one region – south-eastern Lower Poland, and is becoming another micro-regionalism.