Meaning of flødebolle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a piece of confectionery consisting, in its most basic form, of whipped egg whites with sugar on a wafer and covered in chocolate; a chocolate teacake
   common-gender
2. a vain and self-absorbed man
   common-gender, derogatory

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Examples

““Ville du noget?” spurgte hun truende. Han skulle bare ikke komme for godt i gang, sådan en flødebolle.”

“Is there something you wanted?” she enquired threateningly. He should not [untranslated], such a vain and self-absorbed man.

“Han var en selvoptaget flødebolle, men han var også en stor kunstner.”

He was a self-absorbed vain and self-absorbed man, but he was also a great artist.

“Åh, den flødebolle. Han er klam!”

Oh, that vain and self-absorbed man. He is disgusting!

“Han affriender den lille mexicanske flødebolle,...”

He defriends the little Mexican vain and self-absorbed man, ...

“Men navnet Smukke Jan gik også på, at han regnede sig selv for lidt af en helt? Østergaard nikkede. – Min mor ville måske have kaldt ham 'en flødebolle'.”

But the name Beautiful Jan also played on his considering himself something of a hero? Østergaard nodded. - My mother might have called him 'a vain and self-absorbed man'.

“Tænk om hans egen datter lige akkurat nu lå i sin seng og blev forført af en fransk flødebolle!”

To think if his daughter might in that very moment lie in her bed, being seduced by a French vain and self-absorbed man!

“Sådan er Hamlet og ikke bare en fyr, som sidder passivt og lidt feminint og glor ud i luften. Hamlet har sine meget ubehagelige sider, men han er ingen flødebolle.”

Thus is Hamlet and not just a guy who sits passively and somewhat femininely, staring out in the air. Hamlet has his very uncomfortable aspects, but he is no vain and self-absorbed man.

“”Sikken en oppustet flødebolle”, tænkte jeg, ...”

”What an inflated vain and self-absorbed man”, I thought,...

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