a club wielded as a weapon · a young rascal · a knave, a boy
çekim: çoğul Bengeln · tamlayan Bengels
eş: Lausejunge, Lausbub, Flegel
köken: From Middle High German bengel, from Old High German *bengil (“club", "stick", "hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bangil, from Proto-Germanic *bangilaz (“club, hammer”), from Proto-Germanic *bang- (“to beat”).
köken: From chiffe + -on. Chiffe is from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”) from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”) from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”), from Old English *ċippian (“to chip, shave, splinter”), from Proto-West Germanic *kipp-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵey- (“to split; divide; germinate; sprout”). More at English chip.
a skint, chronically poor person behaving as such, having cheap manners, needy · a petty person · an impudent / insolent fellow; a person displaying exceptionally low morals or lacking in ethics
çekim: çoğul cındırlar · tamlayan cındırın
köken: Possibly a shortening from the original nominalizing reduplication of cırmaq (“to tear, tear apart”) - cır-cındır (“rags, rags and tatters”). Compare Turkish çındır (“sinewy piece of meat”).
The state of being young and immature; callowness, greenness (inexperience); a callow youth, greenhorn, or whippersnapper.
köken: From the 出世魚 (shusse uo, fish that change names as they grow older), specifically the 青魚 (aouo) form of the 鱸 (suzuki, Japanese sea bass). At two years of age it is still midway through its growth, hence transferred from the meaning of 青 (“young, immature”) combined with 二才 (“two years old”, connoting immaturity). Alternatively, “二才” is a development from classical Japanese niise (“young man”;…
köken: Uncertain. Potential cognates include Ancient Greek πῆνος (pênos, “web”) (from Proto-Hellenic *pān-) and maybe also πήνη (pḗnē, “woof thread”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌽𐌰 (fana, “piece of cloth”), Old English fana (“flag”), English fane (from Proto-Germanic *fanô). Because of the variation in vowel and consonant length between these terms, De Vaan 2008 denies the possibility of reconstructing any common…