booswicht
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom boos (“evil”) + wicht (“living being”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbooswicht m (plural booswichten, diminutive booswichtje n)
Usage notes
editIn Dutch, compound words normally always take the gender of the latter component of the compound. In this case, the latter component is wicht, a neuter word, which would render the compound neuter. However, due to the word being almost always used to refer to a male person, it takes the masculine gender.
Descendants
edit- Afrikaans: booswig