Masculine

Prügel

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) club, cudgel
  2. (informal, masculine, mildly, strong, vulgar) cock, penis
  3. (masculine, plural, plural-only, strong) swats, a beating, notably as corporal punishment

Frequency

C1
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

bumpis

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

dätsch

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

gnepfli

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

gnepflis

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

hoosegnepfli

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

hoosespannis

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

ranzeschnitte

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schnitte

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schnitz

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

wiggs

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈpʁyː.ɡəl]
Etymology

In summary

From Late Middle High German brügel, an l-suffixed formation from Middle High German brüge (“framework”), itself related to Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ (“bridge”), with semantic shift "framework" > "structured object" > "club, cudgel".

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