Rüffel
German, noun
Rüffel is a German masculine noun meaning “reprimand, dressing-down” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, rüffel is a different word: “first-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “oft deftige, aber ansonsten folgenlose Äußerung des Missfallens über das Tun eines (scheinbar)…”.
What does Rüffel mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinereprimand, dressing-down
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. oft deftige, aber ansonsten folgenlose Äußerung des Missfallens über das Tun eines (scheinbar) Niedrigergestellten
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 Rüffel
- Rüffels genitive
- Rüffeln dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Rüffel
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Rüffel in German?
Rüffel appears about once in every 5 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).