abekat
Danish
editEtymology
editabe (“a monkey, an ape”) + kat (“cat”)
Possibly connected to a Continental Germanic word akin to German Meerkatze, Dutch meerkat.
Noun
editabekat c (singular definite abekatten, plural indefinite abekatte)
- (childish) A monkey (animal)
- (informal) A mischievous and uncivilized person, behaving like a monkey.
- (offensive, archaic) A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent.