Idiot
The term Vollpfosten is a swear word for a person who is characterized by particular stupidity . One suspects a reference to the intellectual abilities of the person designated, which are no greater than those of a standing piece of wood.
The Duden recorded the word in 2013. It already appeared in a youth language book in 2008. In 2012 a film and a book for young people with the title Vollpfosten hoch 2 were published .
The Bundesliga player Arjen Robben (FC Bayern Munich) was banned from using the word against a referee for two games in 2011 by the DFB Sports Court and had to pay a fine of € 15,000.
As a rule, at the end of the year, the ZDF satirical magazine heute-show awards the “Goldenen Vollpfosten” as a satirically motivated negative prize for something particularly stupid. Prize winners included Winfried Kretschmann , Donald Trump , Sigmar Gabriel , Günther Oettinger , Björn Höcke and Andreas Scheuer (2019), but also organizations such as Deutsche Bank and countries such as Switzerland and Great Britain .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ full post, the. In: duden.de , accessed on August 30, 2013.
- ↑ Definition ( memento of the original from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 30, 2013
- ↑ "Vollpfosten" is allowed in, "stick cough" flies. In: Spiegel Online , July 1, 2013.
- ^ Mathias Hamann: Vollpfosten, Vollfrosch, Vollhorst. In: Spiegel Online , April 30, 2008.
- ↑ The Stooges - Three solid posts turn off. In: kino.de , accessed on August 18, 2019.
- ↑ Yvonne Schulze: "When former friends suddenly become enemies" In: jugendbuch-couch.de , June 2012.
- ↑ “Vollpfosten” costs Robben 15,000 euros. In: BILD , April 11, 2011.
- ↑ Background to the show today from December 15, 2017. In: ZDF . December 15, 2017, accessed February 15, 2018 .
