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: ha (“have”) + tummen (“one's thumb”) + mitt (“middle”) + i (“in”) + handen (“one's hand”), literally "have one's thumb in the middle of one's hand."
Han hade tummen mitt i handen och klarade knappt att sätta ihop IKEA-möbler