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- noun South Africa
dummkopf ;idiot ;dunce
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July 31st, 2007 at 4: 22 pm domkop » Blog Archive » Facebook hacked …
Facebook Outage Michael Arrington 2005
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India are going to make700 or 800 runs here LOL. I cant believe south africa got so cocky hahaha ... the funniest thing was AB devilliers and "we have a game plan" speech what a domkop he must be feeling like now.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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India are going to make700 or 800 runs here LOL. I cant believe south africa got so cocky hahaha ... the funniest thing was AB devilliers and "we have a game plan" speech what a domkop he must be feeling like now.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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India are going to make700 or 800 runs here LOL. I cant believe south africa got so cocky hahaha ... the funniest thing was AB devilliers and "we have a game plan" speech what a domkop he must be feeling like now.
News24 Top Stories 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word domkop
Dutch for blockhead, I believe. There was a wonderful children's book about Anton von Leeuwenhoek, the final lines of which were:
"This man is mad!" the people said.
"This Anton's crazy in the head!
He says he's seen a horsefly's brain.
We ought to ship him off to Spain."
(overleaf of Mr. Leeuwenhoek, looking sad, in a boat by a sign pointing forward, labelled 'To Spain.')
They called him domkop, which means 'dope'.
And that's how we got the microscope.
August 15, 2008