"Schlappe" meaning in German

See Schlappe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈʃlapə/ Audio: De-Schlappe.ogg [Germany, Berlin]
Rhymes: -apə Etymology: Partially from German Low German Slappe (“slap”). Probably imitative. Compare English slap and Russian шлёпанец (šljópanec). Etymology templates: {{der|de|nds-de|Slappe|t=slap}} German Low German Slappe (“slap”), {{onomatopoeic|de|title=imitative}} imitative, {{cog|en|slap}} English slap, {{cog|ru|шлёпанец}} Russian шлёпанец (šljópanec) Head templates: {{de-noun|f}} Schlappe f (genitive Schlappe, plural Schlappen) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f}} Forms: Schlappe [genitive], Schlappen [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], Schlappe [nominative, singular], Schlappen [definite, nominative, plural], Schlappe [genitive, singular], Schlappen [definite, genitive, plural], Schlappe [dative, singular], Schlappen [dative, definite, plural], Schlappe [accusative, singular], Schlappen [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (obsolete) slap Tags: feminine, obsolete Synonyms: Klaps, Schlag
    Sense id: en-Schlappe-de-noun-iUBfNISa Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, German onomatopoeias, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 59 20 9 12 Disambiguation of German onomatopoeias: 67 10 12 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 66 12 9 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 80 7 5 7
  2. (now informal) defeat, flop, disadvantageous outcome (in a game, election, contest, battle etc.) Tags: feminine, informal Synonyms: Niederlage, nachteiliger Ausgang
    Sense id: en-Schlappe-de-noun-ErcA3bGI
  3. (obsolete or dialectal) a baret or hoodie cap hanging down Tags: dialectal, feminine, obsolete
    Sense id: en-Schlappe-de-noun-JUgENBTy
  4. (chiefly plural) slide, slipper (one of a pair of footwear open in the back, a shoe from which the back has been cut off) Tags: feminine, plural Related terms: Schlappen [alternative]
    Sense id: en-Schlappe-de-noun-A9W4rz2- Categories (other): Footwear Disambiguation of Footwear: 0 0 0 100

Inflected forms

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          "english": "And so we reach the end, he gives to the laws of humanity an old sneck posset, Tit. 1 13–14, and orders thus: “Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”",
          "ref": "1521 January 6, Martin Luther, “Von der Beichte, ob die der Pabst Macht habe zu gebieten”, in Joh. Georg Walch, editor, Dr. Martin Luthers Sämmtliche Schriften, volume 19. Reformations-Schriften. Streitigkeiten mit den Papisten, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, published 1907, section 28, page 829b:",
          "text": "Und daß wir auch zum Ende kommen, gibt er den Menschengesetzen eine alte Schlappe, Tit. 1, 13. 14., und befiehlt ihm also: „Strafe sie hart, daß sie im Glauben gesund seien, und nichts geben auf die jüdischen Fabeln und Menschengesetze, welche nicht mehr thun, denn abwenden von der Wahrheit.“",
          "translation": "And so we reach the end, he gives to the laws of humanity an old sneck posset, Tit. 1 13–14, and orders thus: “Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”",
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          "text": "Allermeiſt aber darum, weil ſie nun, ſint die aufrühriſchen Bauern geſchlagen ſind, ſich wieder aufblaſen und brüſten, als wollten ſie ganz wieder einſitzen und zu größerer Ehre kommen, ſonderlich weil etliche gottloſe Fürſten und Herren ihnen beiſtehen, auf die ſie ſich verlaſſen und tröſten, und meinen, ſie ſind geneſen, und wieder ganz neu geboren. So ſie denn ſich nicht kehren an die Schlappe, die ihnen begegnet iſt, und wieder anfangen, und nach mehr Schlappen ringen, und Luſt haben zu hören, wie ihr teufliſch Weſen zu preiſen ſei, wollen und ſollen wir ihnen getroſt helfen, und den Dreck, der fo gerne ſtinken wollte, weidlich rühren, bis ſie Maul und Naſen voll kriegen.",
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          "english": "Whenever I breathe relieved by some thought on how some trip might by afforded; ever then there is a discomfit from some corner of my perplex misfortune, such that I well have to see that it is not going to work thus and now yet.",
          "ref": "1825 July 17, Friedrich Schlegel, edited by M. Rottmanner, Friedrich Schlegels Briefe an Frau Christine von Stransky, geborene Freiin von Schleich, volume 1, Wien: Verlag des Literarischen Vereins, published 1907, page 258:",
          "text": "So wie ich einmal aufathme mit irgend einem Gedanken, ob nicht vielleicht doch die Reise möglich zu machen wäre; so kommt allemal eine rechte Schlappe, aus irgend einer Ecke meines viel verwickelten Unglücks, daß ich dann wohl sehen muß, daß es so und jetzt noch nicht geht.",
          "translation": "Whenever I breathe relieved by some thought on how some trip might by afforded; ever then there is a discomfit from some corner of my perplex misfortune, such that I well have to see that it is not going to work thus and now yet.",
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          "ref": "1907, Hedwig Lemberger, Die Wiener Wäsche-Industrie (Wiener Staatswissenschaftliche Studien; Siebenter Band. Zweites Heft), Wien und Leipzig: Franz Deuticke, page 194:",
          "text": "[…] er [der bereits organisierte Teil der Arbeiterschaft] stellt vielmehr anfänglich, solange das Verständnis und das Vertrauen zu dem Werte der Organisation noch nicht voll erwacht und gefestigt ist, eine noch in fließender Bewegung befindliche Masse dar, von welcher sich bei der kleinsten Schlappe, welche die Gewerkvereinsleitung bei resultatlos verlaufenden Arbeiterbewegungen davonträgt, sogleich wieder einzelne Teile loslösen.",
          "translation": "[…] it [the already unionized part of the workforce] rather initially, while the understanding of and trust in the values of the organization are not yet kindled and solidified, represents a mass still in fluid motion, from which individual elements will immediately split off upon the smallest defeat that union leadership experiences in fruitless unionization efforts.",
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          "english": "There is still no AfD mayor in North-Rhine Westphalia, luckily. The two runoff candidates in Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg und Hagen took in clear defeats.",
          "ref": "2025 September 28, Ulrich Windolph, “Bitterer Abend für die SPD”, in Westfalen-Blatt, number 226, published 29 September 2025, page WB01:",
          "text": "Einen AfD-Bürgermeister gibt es in Nordrhein-Westfalen zum Glück weiter nicht. Die drei Stichwahl-Kandidaten in Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg und Hagen kassierten klare Schlappen.",
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          "ref": "1905, Theodor Wolff, “Volksglauben und Volksgebräuche an der oberen Nahe”, in Zeitschrift des Vereins für rheinische und westfälische Volkskunde, volume 2, number 4, Elberfeld: A. Martini & Grüttefien, page 282:",
          "text": "Zitterschen (trockne Flechten), Oft wurden sie, wie die Warzen, mit Speckschwarte usw. behandelt, das war das Gewöhnliche, doch wurde auch also verfahren: Samstags wurden die Zitterschen unter Nennung der drei hl. Namen mit einer Schlappe (Pantoffel) dreimal bestrichen und dazu gesagt […]",
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          "english": "And so we reach the end, he gives to the laws of humanity an old sneck posset, Tit. 1 13–14, and orders thus: “Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”",
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          "text": "Und daß wir auch zum Ende kommen, gibt er den Menschengesetzen eine alte Schlappe, Tit. 1, 13. 14., und befiehlt ihm also: „Strafe sie hart, daß sie im Glauben gesund seien, und nichts geben auf die jüdischen Fabeln und Menschengesetze, welche nicht mehr thun, denn abwenden von der Wahrheit.“",
          "translation": "And so we reach the end, he gives to the laws of humanity an old sneck posset, Tit. 1 13–14, and orders thus: “Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”",
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          "text": "Allermeiſt aber darum, weil ſie nun, ſint die aufrühriſchen Bauern geſchlagen ſind, ſich wieder aufblaſen und brüſten, als wollten ſie ganz wieder einſitzen und zu größerer Ehre kommen, ſonderlich weil etliche gottloſe Fürſten und Herren ihnen beiſtehen, auf die ſie ſich verlaſſen und tröſten, und meinen, ſie ſind geneſen, und wieder ganz neu geboren. So ſie denn ſich nicht kehren an die Schlappe, die ihnen begegnet iſt, und wieder anfangen, und nach mehr Schlappen ringen, und Luſt haben zu hören, wie ihr teufliſch Weſen zu preiſen ſei, wollen und ſollen wir ihnen getroſt helfen, und den Dreck, der fo gerne ſtinken wollte, weidlich rühren, bis ſie Maul und Naſen voll kriegen.",
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            [
              101,
              110
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Whenever I breathe relieved by some thought on how some trip might by afforded; ever then there is a discomfit from some corner of my perplex misfortune, such that I well have to see that it is not going to work thus and now yet.",
          "ref": "1825 July 17, Friedrich Schlegel, edited by M. Rottmanner, Friedrich Schlegels Briefe an Frau Christine von Stransky, geborene Freiin von Schleich, volume 1, Wien: Verlag des Literarischen Vereins, published 1907, page 258:",
          "text": "So wie ich einmal aufathme mit irgend einem Gedanken, ob nicht vielleicht doch die Reise möglich zu machen wäre; so kommt allemal eine rechte Schlappe, aus irgend einer Ecke meines viel verwickelten Unglücks, daß ich dann wohl sehen muß, daß es so und jetzt noch nicht geht.",
          "translation": "Whenever I breathe relieved by some thought on how some trip might by afforded; ever then there is a discomfit from some corner of my perplex misfortune, such that I well have to see that it is not going to work thus and now yet.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "english": "[…] it [the already unionized part of the workforce] rather initially, while the understanding of and trust in the values of the organization are not yet kindled and solidified, represents a mass still in fluid motion, from which individual elements will immediately split off upon the smallest defeat that union leadership experiences in fruitless unionization efforts.",
          "ref": "1907, Hedwig Lemberger, Die Wiener Wäsche-Industrie (Wiener Staatswissenschaftliche Studien; Siebenter Band. Zweites Heft), Wien und Leipzig: Franz Deuticke, page 194:",
          "text": "[…] er [der bereits organisierte Teil der Arbeiterschaft] stellt vielmehr anfänglich, solange das Verständnis und das Vertrauen zu dem Werte der Organisation noch nicht voll erwacht und gefestigt ist, eine noch in fließender Bewegung befindliche Masse dar, von welcher sich bei der kleinsten Schlappe, welche die Gewerkvereinsleitung bei resultatlos verlaufenden Arbeiterbewegungen davonträgt, sogleich wieder einzelne Teile loslösen.",
          "translation": "[…] it [the already unionized part of the workforce] rather initially, while the understanding of and trust in the values of the organization are not yet kindled and solidified, represents a mass still in fluid motion, from which individual elements will immediately split off upon the smallest defeat that union leadership experiences in fruitless unionization efforts.",
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          "english": "There is still no AfD mayor in North-Rhine Westphalia, luckily. The two runoff candidates in Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg und Hagen took in clear defeats.",
          "ref": "2025 September 28, Ulrich Windolph, “Bitterer Abend für die SPD”, in Westfalen-Blatt, number 226, published 29 September 2025, page WB01:",
          "text": "Einen AfD-Bürgermeister gibt es in Nordrhein-Westfalen zum Glück weiter nicht. Die drei Stichwahl-Kandidaten in Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg und Hagen kassierten klare Schlappen.",
          "translation": "There is still no AfD mayor in North-Rhine Westphalia, luckily. The two runoff candidates in Gelsenkirchen, Duisburg und Hagen took in clear defeats.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "defeat, flop, disadvantageous outcome (in a game, election, contest, battle etc.)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defeat",
          "defeat"
        ],
        [
          "flop",
          "flop"
        ],
        [
          "disadvantageous",
          "disadvantageous"
        ],
        [
          "outcome",
          "outcome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now informal) defeat, flop, disadvantageous outcome (in a game, election, contest, battle etc.)"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Niederlage"
        },
        {
          "word": "nachteiliger Ausgang"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "German dialectal terms",
        "German terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a baret or hoodie cap hanging down"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "baret",
          "baret"
        ],
        [
          "hoodie",
          "hoodie"
        ],
        [
          "cap",
          "cap"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or dialectal) a baret or hoodie cap hanging down"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dialectal",
        "feminine",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "German terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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          "ref": "1905, Theodor Wolff, “Volksglauben und Volksgebräuche an der oberen Nahe”, in Zeitschrift des Vereins für rheinische und westfälische Volkskunde, volume 2, number 4, Elberfeld: A. Martini & Grüttefien, page 282:",
          "text": "Zitterschen (trockne Flechten), Oft wurden sie, wie die Warzen, mit Speckschwarte usw. behandelt, das war das Gewöhnliche, doch wurde auch also verfahren: Samstags wurden die Zitterschen unter Nennung der drei hl. Namen mit einer Schlappe (Pantoffel) dreimal bestrichen und dazu gesagt […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "slide, slipper (one of a pair of footwear open in the back, a shoe from which the back has been cut off)"
      ],
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        [
          "slide",
          "slide"
        ],
        [
          "slipper",
          "slipper"
        ],
        [
          "shoe",
          "shoe#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly plural) slide, slipper (one of a pair of footwear open in the back, a shoe from which the back has been cut off)"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "alternative"
          ],
          "word": "Schlappen"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈʃlapə/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-Schlappe.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7f/De-Schlappe.ogg/De-Schlappe.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/De-Schlappe.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Germany",
        "Berlin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-apə"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Schlappe"
}

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