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

  1. (derogatory) plebs, riffraff, mob, rabble ((despised, unsophisticated) common people)
    pöbeln
    the plebs
  2. 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 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative pöbel pöbeln — —
Genitive pöbels pöbelns — —

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