geil

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. voluptuous, lusty
  2. horny, lusting, randy, sexually focused and/or aroused
  3. too fat/ fertile
  4. too abundantly growing, excessively luscious
  5. (slang) cool
  6. sexy, good looking, pretty

Frequenz

C1
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ɣɛi̯l/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle Dutch gheil, from Old Dutch *geil, from Proto-West Germanic *gail, from Proto-Germanic *gailaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰoylos (“frothing, tempestuous, wanton”). Cognate to English gole, German geil. The slang meaning of "cool" was likely borrowed from German geil.

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