hohl
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German and Old High German hol, from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hohl (strong nominative masculine singular hohler, comparative hohler, superlative am hohlsten)
- hollow
- concave; cupped
- (figuratively) empty, hollow
- Synonyms: gehaltlos, inhaltslos
- hohle Phrasen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (colloquial) dense; daft (stupid, usually only of people)
- 2008, “Automatikpistole”, in Strom und Drang, performed by Fettes Brot:
- Und ich nutze die Gelegenheit der Welt zu erklären, warum ihr leider nicht nur bräge seid / Keine Frage: Ihr seid hohl so wie RTL2
- And I'll use the opportunity to explain to the world why you're sadly not only dumb / No question: you're hollow like RTL2
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hohl” in Duden online
- “hohl”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “hohl”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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