•a flail, threshing tool (or by extension equivalent machinery) · a flail, a weapon with a weight on a chain · a flail, whipping implement; also in figurative sense
scoundrel, villain, blackguard, bastard, degenerate · Term of abuse
çekim: çoğul canalhas
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder. Latin canēs Latin canisder. Vulgar Latin *canālia Italian canagliabor. Portuguese canalha Borrowed from Italian canaglia, ultimately equivalent to cão + -alha.
köken: Uncertain. Possibly a clipping of malimończyk, marymontczyk (“student/professor/baked good from Marymont”), itself probably from French Mariemont (“Mount Mary”), where the element was influenced by a dialectal pronunciation of the prefix anty- (dialectally ancy-), which often has a negative connotation, with sound changes being marymontczyk > marymon > ancymon. First attested in 1914. Compare…
rascal, urchin (a mischievous boy) · scoundrel (a person without honour or virtue) · chicken vendor
çekim: çoğul csibészek
köken: From csibe (“baby chicken”) + -ész (noun-forming suffix denoting an occupation). Its original meaning csibeárus (“chicken vendor”) is obsolete. The modern meaning was influenced by csirkefogó (“rascal, scoundrel”, literally “chicken-catcher”).
yoke-bearer (a term of abuse, usually of slaves) · rascal, scoundrel, rogue
çekim: çoğul furciferī · tamlayan furciferī
köken: Etymology tree Latin furca Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰorós Proto-Italic *-foros Latin -fer Latin furcifer From furca + -fer.
A douchebag, motherfucker, man who behaves unpleasantly or vulgarly · A vagabond · A rogue
çekim: çoğul stoddere · tamlayan stodders
köken: Compare Norwegian Nynorsk ståtar/stotar and Swedish ståtare. From an earlier form staader. According to the Danish Dictionary, from Old Norse stakra (“to waggle, stagger”), in which case is related to støde and stavre, but the Swedish and Norwegian sources provide another etymology, derived from a verb (Norwegian Nynorsk stota and Swedish ståta).