malloot
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑˈloːt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mal‧loot
- Rhymes: -oːt
Noun
malloot f (plural malloten, diminutive mallootje n, feminine mallote)
- fool, idiot, moron [from 19th c.]
- 1873 November 12, “Een oud Mecklenburgsch Schoolmeester (feuilleton)”, in Het Nieuws van den Dag. Kleine courant, page 1:
- „Och malloot, wie heeft je dat weer wijs gemaakt?”
- "Oh fool, who made you believe that?"
- (archaic) exuberant, hyperactive or foolish woman [16th–20th c.]
Derived terms
- malloterig
- mallotig
Adjective
malloot (comparative malloter, superlative mallootst)
Inflection
| Inflection of malloot | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | malloot | |||
| inflected | mallote | |||
| comparative | malloter | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | malloot | malloter | het mallootst het mallootste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | mallote | mallotere | mallootste |
| n. sing. | malloot | malloter | mallootste | |
| plural | mallote | mallotere | mallootste | |
| definite | mallote | mallotere | mallootste | |
| partitive | malloots | malloters | — | |
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