pöbel

See also: Pöbel and pøbel

Swedish

Etymology

From German Pöbel, from Old French pueple, from Latin populus. Attested since 1734. Cognate of Danish pøbel, French peuple.

Noun

pöbel c

  2. (derogatory) plebs, riffraff, mob, rabble ((despised, unsophisticated) common people)
    pöbeln
    the plebs
  3. mob, rabble (disorderly, often angry crowd (made up of common people), in a not necessarily derogatory sense)
    En arg pöbel hade samlats utanför mitt hus
    An angry mob had gathered outside my house

Usage notes

Often a bit ironic in (sense 1), whether genuinely meant to be derogatory or not, similar to "plebs."

Declension

Declension of pöbel
nominative genitive
singular indefinite pöbel pöbels
definite pöbeln pöbelns
plural indefinite — —
definite — —

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References

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