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tøve

verbverb

to talk nonsense, to talk rubbish · to dawdle · to felt (wool)

EtymologyOpphav

norrønt þǿfa ‘stride, slite’ Old Norse þǿfa 'to struggle, to toil'

Senses and Example SentencesBetydning og bruk

  1. snakke usant;
    tulle, tøyse, vrøvle
    to say things that are not true;
    to mess about, to joke, to talk nonsense
    • nei, nå tøver du bare no, now you're just talking rubbish
  2. være treg;
    somleto dawdle, nøleto hesitate
    to be slow;
    to dawdlesomle, to hesitatenøle
    • han stod og tøvet utenfor huset he stood dawdling outside the house
  3. behandle ull eller andre materialer slik at det filtrer seg sammen og blir tettere og tykkere;
    tove (II)to felt
    to treat wool or other materials so that it mats together and becomes denser and thicker;
    to felttove (II)