spotten

spotten

1. definite singular of spot

spotten

1. gerund of spotte
   • 2013, Jakob Böhme, Vejen til Kristus, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 42:

     Lad mig leve med og i dig; og omvend dog mine forfølgere, som nu med deres spotten – uden at vide det - ofrer min tomhed og medfødte synder for din vrede.

     Let me live with and in you; and convert my pursuers, who now, with their mocking - unknowingly - sacrifice my emptiness and inborn sins for your anger.

   • 2014, P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast, Nattens hus #4: Utæmmet, Tellerup A/S, →ISBN:

     Jeg stødte igen frem med hænderne og fandt en grum tilfredsstillelse i at høre deres spotten blive til skrig af panik, inden de helt døde hen.

     Once more, I thrusted forwards with my hands, and found grim satisfaction in hearing their mocking become panicked screams, before dying out entirely.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔtə(n)/

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From Middle Dutch spotten, from Old Dutch *spotton, from Proto-Germanic *sputtōną. Equivalent to spot +‎ -en.

spotten

1. (intransitive) to mock, deride

• Negerhollands: spot

Borrowed from English spot.

spotten

1. (transitive) to spot

   Kom je mee treinen spotten? ― Will you come trainspotting with me?

   De oude man ging graag zeldzame vogels spotten. ― The old man liked spotting rare birds.

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spotten (weak, third-person singular present spottet, past tense spottete, past participle gespottet, auxiliary haben)

1. (intransitive) to scoff, to jeer, to mock [with über (+ accusative) or (higher register) genitive ‘at someone’]

• Spott, verspotten

• “spotten” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “spotten” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “spotten” in Duden online
• “spotten” in OpenThesaurus.de

From Old Dutch *spotton, from Proto-Germanic *sputtōną. Equivalent to spot +‎ -en.

spotten

1. to mock, to deride

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: spotten
• Limburgish: spótte

• “spotten”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “spotten”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN