foppen
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔpə(n)/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔpən
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
German
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from Middle Dutch focken (“to breed; to fuck; to tease”). Compare modern Dutch fokken. German foppen developed and spread in Rotwelsch (criminal’s jargon), originally meaning “to trick, deceive” (15th century).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔpən/, [ˈfɔpən], [ˈfɔpm̩]
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Verb
foppen (weak, third-person singular present foppt, past tense foppte, past participle gefoppt, auxiliary haben)
- (colloquial) to put on, to tease, to hoax
- Synonym: necken
- 1907, Robert Walser, Geschwister Tanner:
- So die Natur zu lieben, wie er, muß eine Qual sein und ist eine Schande; denn ein Mann von Vernunft läßt sich nicht lange von einem Gegenstand, und sei es auch die Natur selber, foppen und narren und peinigen.
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- 1912, Erich Mühsam, chapter 3, in Tagebücher 1910–1924, published 1994, →ISBN:
- In bezug auf Landauer versuchte er, mich vor die Alternative zu stellen: Er oder Er! Ich lehnte solche Alternative schroff ab, woraus sich die psychologische Erklärung ergab: Ich habe das Bedürfnis, mich von aller Welt foppen zu lassen.
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Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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