foppen

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German foppen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔpə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔpən

Verb

foppen

  1. (transitive) to fool, to trick, to deceive

Inflection

Inflection of foppen (weak)
infinitive foppen
past singular fopte
past participle gefopt
infinitive foppen
gerund foppen n
present tense past tense
1st person singular fopfopte
2nd person sing. (jij) foptfopte
2nd person sing. (u) foptfopte
2nd person sing. (gij) foptfopte
3rd person singular foptfopte
plural foppenfopten
subjunctive sing.1 foppefopte
subjunctive plur.1 foppenfopten
imperative sing. fop
imperative plur.1 fopt
participles foppendgefopt
1) Archaic.

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German

Etymology

Supposedly borrowed from Middle Dutch focken (to breed; to fuck; to tease). Compare modern Dutch fokken. German foppen developed and spread in criminal’s jargon. An eventual relation with English fuck seems possible.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɔpən/, [ˈfɔpən], [ˈfɔpm̩]
  • (file)

Verb

foppen (third-person singular simple present foppt, past tense foppte, past participle gefoppt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial) to put on, to tease, to hoax
    • (Can we date this quote?), Erich Mühsam, chapter 3, in Tagebücher 1910-1924, published 1994, →ISBN:
      In bezug auf Landauer versuchte er, mich vor die Alternative zu stellen: Er oder Er! Ich lehnte solche Alternative schroff ab, woraus sich die psychologische Erklärung ergab: Ich habe das Bedürfnis, mich von aller Welt foppen zu lassen.
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