Laffe
See also: laffe
German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German laffen or laffe. Perhaps ultimately related to laff (“insipid, stale”).
Pronunciation
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][1], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
- Ich lache ob den abgeschmackten Laffen, / Die mich anglotzen mit den Bocksgesichtern
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1913 [1878], chapter 15, in Hermann Röhl, transl., Anna Karenina[2], part 5, translation of Анна Каренина (Anna Karenina) by Leo Tolstoy:
- ›Dieser dumme Laffe, der Tscharski! Sie wollte ihn abweisen, das weiß ich sicher, verstand es aber nicht zu machen.‹
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Laffe | die | Laffen |
| genitive | eines | des | Laffen | der | Laffen |
| dative | einem | dem | Laffen | den | Laffen |
| accusative | einen | den | Laffen | die | Laffen |
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