a Hungarian or Hungarian-origin soldier that does not converse well · klutz, blunderer, butterfingers (clumsy person)
çekim: çoğul Tollpatsche · tamlayan Tollpatsches
eş: Tölpel, Töffel, Trampel, Platsch
köken: First attested 1698 in Bavaria as Tolbatz, from Hungarian talpas (“wide-footed; infantryman”), so called because of their footwear consisting of soles attached by strings. Influenced by toll (“crazy”), patschen (“to whoosh, to hit with a splashing sound”), and dalpen, talpen (“to walk clumsily; to grab clumsily”), also Dalpe, Talpe, Dalpsche, Talpsche, Patsche, designations for a broad hand.
köken: Distorted from Arabic بَطَّال (baṭṭāl) or another word from the root ب ط ل (b ṭ l), or maybe from بَتَرَ (batara, “to cut off”) in view of Salamancan baldorro (“beast that one culls for being old or sick”), baldorras and boldregas (“tattered”), Aragonese and Spanish baldrés (“tanned sheep hide”), Portuguese and Galician baldréu (“goat-hide for gloves; depraved person”), Canarian baladrón…
köken: From Latin eunūchus, from Ancient Greek εὐνοῦχος (eunoûkhos, “eunuch, castrated animal”), εὐνή (eunḗ, “bed”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, keep, hold”); literally, a chamberlain (see ĉambelano).