Noun: paarse krokodil
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
| Sg. | paarse krokodil |
| Pl. | paarse krokodillen |
Sample Sentences
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Er hangt een praktische, doenerige sfeer — de mensen van wat het Veereberaad is gaan heten willen ‘problemen oplossen’. De paarse krokodil te lijf, blootleggen waar de bureaucratie verstikkend wordt. Op zondagmiddagen Nederland fiksen, dat idee. (A practical, can-do atmosphere looms — the people of what has come to be called the Veere advisory group want to "solve problems". Taking on red tape, laying bare where bureaucracy becomes suffocating. To fix the Netherlands on Sunday afternoons, that kind of idea.) [2016, Sheila Sitalsing, Mark. Portret van een premier, Prometheus:]
Nouns inflected like paarse krokodil
internettrol,
grenstol,
zevende naamval,
diefstal,
mottenbal,
paasstol,
slachtofferrol,
Olympiajol,
boksbal,
boogbal,
boekrol,
spoedgeval,
bouwval,
niemendal,
bagatel,
grote pimpernel,
zoutwaterkrokodil,
sneeuwval,
sneeuwbol,
sneeuwbal, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Literally, “purple crocodile”. From a 2005 television commercial by Dutch insurance company OHRA, in which a swimming bath employee refuses to return a lost inflatable purple crocodile to its owners unless they comply with several pointless lost and found regulations, even though their object is sitting right next to him.
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