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See also: nûf
Dalmatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nuf m (feminine núa)
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]nuf f (plural nuffen, diminutive nufje n)
- (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)
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → West Frisian: nufke
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nuf f (plural nuues)
- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English roof (roof /ruːf/ > nuf, r > n).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nuf (nominative plural nufs)
Declension
[edit]declension of nuf
Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from "nuf"
- barakanuf
- bledamanufäd
- disnufaspadäd
- feledamanufed
- glüganuf
- jelädanuf
- lokädanufed
- mistomanufül
- nufabem
- nufabemem
- nufaglät
- nufalucem
- nufam
- nufaribäd
- nufaribädaboad
- nufaribädakap
- nufaribädastab
- nufaribädem
- nufaribädemibum
- nufaribädik
- nufaslet
- nufäd
- nufed
- nufihitegan
- nufijitegan
- nufitegan
- nufitegön
- nufön
- nufül
- platedanuf
- ridanuf
- stolanuf
- tonanufäd
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