tölp

Swedish

Etymology

From older tylp, tylpel, from archaic German Tülpel (equivalent to present-day German Tölpel), from Middle Low German dorper. Doublet of torpare. Regarding the shift in sense from "villager" to "oaf", compare with the origin of the otherwise unrelated French vilain.

Noun

tölp c

1. someone unrefined and ill-mannered

Declension

Declension of tölp
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tölp	tölpen	tölpar	tölparna
Genitive	tölps	tölpens	tölpars	tölparnas

Derived terms

• tölpaktig

References

• tölp in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tölp in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tölp in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• tölp in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)