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tölp

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From older tylp, tylpel, from archaic German Tülpel (equivalent to present-day German Tölpel), from Middle Low German dorper. Doublet of torpare. Regarding the shift in sense from "villager" to "oaf", compare with the origin of the otherwise unrelated French vilain.

Noun

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tölp c

  1. someone unrefined and ill-mannered

Declension

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Declension of tölp
nominative genitive
singular indefinite tölp tölps
definite tölpen tölpens
plural indefinite tölpar tölpars
definite tölparna tölparnas

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