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Swedish
Etymology
From German Pöbel, from Old French pueple, from Latin populus. Attested since 1734. Cognate of Danish pøbel, French peuple.
Noun
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- (derogatory) plebs, riffraff, mob, rabble ((despised, unsophisticated) common people)
- 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."
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