abekat

Danish

Etymology

abe (“a monkey, an ape”) +‎ kat (“cat”)

Possibly connected to a Continental Germanic word akin to German Meerkatze, Dutch meerkat.

Noun

abekat c (singular definite abekatten, plural indefinite abekatte)

1. (childish) A monkey (animal)
2. (informal) A mischievous and uncivilized person, behaving like a monkey.
3. (offensive, archaic) A dark-skinned person, especially a person of, or primarily of, Negro descent.

Synonyms

• (animal): abe, primat
• (uncivilized person): bavian, svin
• (dark-skinned, derogatory): nigger
• (dark-skinned, now offensive): neger
• (dark-skinned, neutral): sort, farvet, afrikaner