Laffe
See also: laffe
German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German laffen or laffe. Perhaps ultimately related to laff (“insipid, stale”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlafə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Laf‧fe
- Homophone: laffe
Noun
Laffe m (weak, genitive Laffen, plural Laffen)
- (colloquial, derogatory) beau, dandy (arrogant, vain man)
- Synonyms: Dandy, (colloquial, derogatory) Fatzke, Geck, (chiefly Austria, fashionable in the 1880s) Gigerl, (colloquial) Lackaffe, (youth slang) Poser, Stutzer, Zierbengel
- 1827, Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder [Book of Songs], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
- Ich lache ob den abgeschmackten Laffen, / Die mich anglotzen mit den Bocksgesichtern
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Declension
Further reading
- “Laffe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Laffe” in Duden online
- “Laffe”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
- “Laffe” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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