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Dorf

//ˈdɔːf// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A village in a German-speaking area.

    "This dorf contained some forty dwellings."

  2. 2
    freak.

    ""So? What'a you want? That's stupid! You dorf! Yeah . . . okay. I'll see you when I get there. Get off my back, will you?" When you tell him that's no way to talk to a friend, he looks at you as though you're from another planet."

  3. 3
    A dwarf. broadly, humorous

Etymology

Etymology 1

In some cases from German Dorf and in others from the cognate Yiddish דאָרף (dorf). Doublet of dorp and thorp.

Etymology 2

Changed from dwarf.

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