Laffe

== German == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle High German laffen or laffe. Perhaps ultimately related to laff (“insipid, stale”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈlafə/ Hyphenation: Laf‧fe Homophone: laffe === 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 ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Laffe”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[3] (in German) “Laffe” in Duden online “Laffe”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008– “Laffe” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon