Popel
German, noun
Popel is spelled P-O-P-E-L (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written German, the 61,377th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Popel is a German masculine noun meaning “booger, boogers, bogey (piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, popel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “dicker Nasenschleim, verhärtetes Nasensekret”.
What does Popel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebooger, boogers, bogey (piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from the nostril)
- 2
masculinehickey (printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface)
noun
- 1
masculinea pitiable or insignificant person (usually male)
- 2
datedmasculineone of the common people, proletarian, member of the working (or lower middle) class
- 3
archaicmasculinealternative form of Pöbel (“plebs, mob”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present
- 2
singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. dicker Nasenschleim, verhärtetes Nasensekret 2. armseliger Mensch 3. rotziger Junge
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Popel
- Popels genitive
- Popeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Popel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Popel in German?
Popel appears about once in every 2 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).