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Spaddelee
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/spadəlɛɪ̯/
noun
Syllabication:
Spad·de·lee
Does not appear in plural
f
de Spaddelee
[1]
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Cuxland:
Heinrich Teut:
Hadeler Wörterbuch: der plattdeutsche Wortschatz des Landes Hadeln (Niederelbe).
Wachholtz, 1959, volume 4, page 186
Stader Geest:
Marcus Buck: attested by oral sources on the Stade Geest
Low Saxon:
Akt
von
dat
Spaddeln
English:
fidgeting
wriggling
Dutch:
gespartel
German:
Zappelei
Gezappel
Examples:
Höör
op
mit
de
Spaddelee
,
du
rittst
noch
wat
üm
!
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
spaddeln
+
-ee
Rhyming words
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