Masculine

labbekak

Meaning

  1. (derogatory, masculine) a weak, faint-hearted, effete or cowardly man
  2. (dated, derogatory, dialectal, masculine) a gossip, a chatterbox

Hyphenated as
lab‧be‧kak
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɑ.bəˌkɑk/
Etymology

Compound of labben (“to chat, to babble, to gossip (imitative)”) + -e- + kak. The meaning of the second word is somewhat uncertain, it could mean “shit, crap” or it could be a variant of kaak (“jaw”).

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