knüddeln
See also: knuddeln
German
Etymology
From Central Franconian knüddele, knoddele (“to knot; to rumple”), ultimately related with Knoten (“knot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈknʏdəln/
Verb
knüddeln (third-person singular simple present knüddelt, past tense knüddelte, past participle geknüddelt, auxiliary haben)
- (regional, western Germany) to rumple (fabric, paper, etc.)
- Er hat das Papier geknüddelt und weggeworfen.
- He rumpled the paper and threw it away.
- Er hat das Papier geknüddelt und weggeworfen.
- (regional, western Germany) to stuff something somewhere (e.g. clothes in a bag) thereby causing it to rumple
- Wenn du dein Hemd so in die Tasche knüddelst, brauchst du's gar nicht mitzunehmen.
- If you stuff your shirt into the bag like this, you needn't even bother to take it with you.
- Wenn du dein Hemd so in die Tasche knüddelst, brauchst du's gar nicht mitzunehmen.
Synonyms
- (sense 1): knüllen, zerknittern
- (sense 2): knüllen, stopfen
Derived terms
- zerknüddeln
- zusammenknüddeln
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