schabouwelijk.
poor
Meaning & usage
poor
Belgische soccer journalist op VRT: "het was een schabouwelijke eerste helft"
Where this word comes from
Possibly from Dutch schabouw (“a position of the sails of a mill”) + -lijk, from French escabeau, from Latin scabellum, diminutive form of scamnum, from Proto-Indo-European *skap-. This would make sense phonetically but it would be unclear how the meaning of the words transitioned from "a position of the sails of a mill" to "miserable".
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