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German
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German laffen or laffe. Perhaps ultimately related to laff (“insipid, stale”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Laffe m (weak, genitive Laffen, plural Laffen)
- (colloquial, derogatory) beau, dandy (arrogant, vain man)
- Synonyms: Dandy, (colloquial, derogatory) Fatzke, Geck, (chiefly Austria, fashionable in the 1880s) Gigerl, (colloquial) Lackaffe, (youth slang) Poser, Stutzer, Zierbengel
1827, Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder [Book of Songs], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:Ich lache ob den abgeschmackten Laffen, / Die mich anglotzen mit den Bocksgesichtern- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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