Mysterieus Nederlands

[muckefuck]

Woorden in het korte verhaal "Spookstad" van Hafid Bouazza die in het Van Dale woordenboek niet te vinden zijn:

• kovel
• kevelkin
• nebbespitsorig
• bolbuikig
• holgerugd
• buideltje
• lendenen
• grien
• lodder
• pampoesje
• ruiseln
• helledampen
• pluimgesnater
• vleugelgewiek
• wildgewingerd
• betrippeln
• kuf
• schaargewijs
• wanlust

Comments

[mistress-elaine.livejournal.com]

My God, you're right -- it is in Van Dale! I'm amazed. I've never actually heard anyone use it, although I wouldn't put it past the Flemish to do so. Generally speaking, contractions of adjectives and nouns are highly frowned upon in Dutch. They're called Germanisms, and you know enough about our post-war attempts to de-Germanify the language to know that that's a bad thing. :-)

I should probably add, too, that pampoesje isn't exactly a common word, which would explain why you couldn't find it in your edition of Van Dale (whatever that is). Most Dutch people would call the objects in question Marokkaanse muiltjes, pantoffels met puntneuzen or something to that effect. Pampoesje is quite obscure.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I love the sound of it--it makes me think of grapefruits! What does Van Dale give for an etymology?

[mistress-elaine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it makes me think of grapefruits, as well. Van Dale says: French babouche < Arabic babuj < Persian papush. Sounds good enough to me.

An alternate spelling is papoesje, which makes sense, given the above.