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nuf

See also: nûf

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin novus.

Adjective

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nuf m (feminine núa)

  1. new

Dutch

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Etymology

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Possibly a slang word related to neus, Low German nüff (“snout, nose”), or West Frisian nüf, referring to someone who turns her nose up at something or walks with her nose in the air.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /nʏf/
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  • Hyphenation: nuf
  • Rhymes: -ʏf

Noun

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nuf f (plural nuffen, diminutive nufje n)

  1. (derogatory) a woman, in particular a girl, who is considered arrogant or posh
    • 1802, Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, De ridder Don Quichot van Mancha, vol. 2, tr. by Pieter van Woensel, publ. by J. C. Leeuwestyn, 47.
      „(...) Hoe durft gij, aschgat en nufje, zulke lastertaal uitſlaan, oordeelen over zulke loflijke boeken als die der ridderſchap! (...)”
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → West Frisian: nufke

References

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  1. ^ P.A.F. van Veen en N. van der Sijs (1997), Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden, 2e druk, Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht/Antwerpen

Old Spanish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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nuf f (plural nuues)

  1. Apocopic form of nuue, cloud.
    • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:
      Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grãt ſobrel mõt. Y uoz de cuerno grãt mucho E ouẏerõ pauor grãt tod el pueblo q̃ era enel albergada.
      It was the early morning of the third day, and there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain, and the very mighty blast of a [ram's] horn, and all the people who were in the camp felt great fear.

Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English roof (roof /ruːf/ > nuf, r > n).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nuf (nominative plural nufs)

  1. roof

Declension

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declension of nuf
singular plural
nominative nuf nufs
genitive nufa nufas
dative nufe nufes
accusative nufi nufis
vocative 1 o nuf! o nufs!
predicative 2 nufu nufus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

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Terms derived from "nuf"
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