beul

Meaning

  1. (masculine) an executioner, torturer, one who carries out executions and other judicial corporal punishments
  2. (figuratively,masculine) a cruel person, in act or sadistic streak

Concepts

hangman

executioner

torturer

doer

executor

brute

bully

Frequency

C2
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bøːl/
Etymology

From Middle Dutch buel, earlier buedel, from Old Dutch *budil, from Proto-West Germanic *budil, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz. Doublet of pedel.

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Sentences
De   beul   liep   naar   de   galg .

The executioner walked to the gallows.

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