toffel
Swedish
noun
Definitions
- slipper footwear
- (informal) a henpecked guy
Etymology
Borrowed from French pantoufle (slipper).
Origin
French
pantoufle
Gloss
slipper
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- aamutohveli Finnish
- tohveli Finnish
- tohvelieläin Finnish
- pantofola Italian
- pantoffel Dutch, Flemish
- pantouflard French
- pantoufle French
- туфля Russian
- pantufla Spanish, Castilian
- hjälte Swedish
- pantoffel Swedish
- toffelhjälte Swedish
- toffla Swedish
- pantofel Polish
- tuffele Middle Low German