dragonder

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Borrowed from German Dragoner. The pejorative sense derives from Aal de Dragonder, a woman who lived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and dressed as a dragoon.

Noun

dragonder m (plural dragonders, diminutive dragondertje n)

  1. dragoon
  2. (pejorative) unfeminine woman
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