spuit elf

/spœy̯t ˈɛlf/

dişil

FELEMENKÇE → TR

Çekim Tablosu

çoğulspuit elven

Tanım

•a nobody who is late in commenting or catching up, often one whose comment is ignorant or irrelevant

Etimoloji

Uncertain. Literally, “hose eleven”; referring to the eleventh fire company. Querido glosses it as “mud hose”, compare spuit elf geeft ook modder, but why “eleven” is linked to “mud” is unclear. Hypotheses include: * from the concept of 11 as a crazy or incomplete number, not quite a dozen (cf. gekkengetal); * from an old firefighting figure of speech: by the time the eleventh fire hose arrives…