"spuit elf" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "Literally, “hose eleven”",
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  "etymology_text": "Uncertain. Literally, “hose eleven”; referring to the eleventh fire company. Querido glosses it as “mud hose”, compare spuit elf geeft ook modder, but why “eleven” is linked to “mud” is unclear. Hypotheses include:\n* from the concept of 11 as a crazy or incomplete number, not quite a dozen (cf. gekkengetal);\n* from an old firefighting figure of speech: by the time the eleventh fire hose arrives at the scene of a fire, the canal from which the fire brigade was drawing water may have only mud remaining.\nSometimes pronounced as if it is interpreted as a compound of spuit (“hose; syringe”) or spuiten (“to spray, to spund; to inject”) and elf (“eleven; elf, fae”).",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1925, Israël Querido, \"Mooie Karel\", in De Jordaan. Amsterdamsch epos, part 4, Scheltens & Giltay (6th ed., first ed. 1924), page 435. Karel wrong zich overeind en schreeuwde",
          "text": "- Louw kans, spuit Elf!.. Ik ferdom 't!... Is da kwant of nie?...",
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        "a nobody who is late in commenting or catching up, often one whose comment is ignorant or irrelevant"
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        "(Netherlands) a nobody who is late in commenting or catching up, often one whose comment is ignorant or irrelevant"
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          "word": "spuit elf geeft ook modder"
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        "nl:Spuit elf geeft (ook nog) modder"
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      "ipa": "/spœy̯t ˈɛlf/"
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      "ipa": "/ˈspœy̯t.ɛlf/",
      "note": "reinterpreted pronunciation"
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  "word": "spuit elf"
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      "word": "spuit elf geeft ook modder"
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  "word": "spuit elf"
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