blamabel

embarrassing, disgraceful

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

phenyybel

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Etymology

In summary

Mid 19th century, from French blâmable. By surface analysis, blamieren (“to embarrass; to disgrace oneself”) + -abel (“-able”).

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