tøffelhelt

Danish

Etymology

From tøffel (“slipper”) +‎ helt (“hero”), derived from the phrase under tøflen (“henpecked”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tøfəlhɛlˀt/, [ˈtˢøfl̩ˌhɛlˀd̥]

Noun

tøffelhelt c (singular definite tøffelhelten, plural indefinite tøffelhelte)

  1. a henpecked husband

Inflection

Declension of tøffelhelt
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tøffelhelt tøffelhelten tøffelhelte tøffelheltene
genitive tøffelhelts tøffelheltens tøffelheltes tøffelheltenes

References

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