Dumme

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Central Franconian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German dūme.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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Dumme m (plural Dumme, diminutive Dümmche)

  1. (most of Ripuarian) thumb
    • 1981, “Jupp”‎[1]performed by BAP:
      Un üvverhaup die dausend Fraue, die e kannt.
      Un die Messerstecherei, zick dä dä Dumme fählt an singer räächte Hand.
      And after all those thousand women that he knew.
      And that knifing since which the thumb is missing from his right hand.