English-German translations for cudgel

  • Knüppelder
    Hier muss wieder mehr Menschlichkeit einziehen, statt mit dem praxisfernen Bürokratismusknüppel auf unsere fleißigen Kleinbauern loszuziehen. It is time for some humanity again, instead of beating our hardworking small farmers senseless with bureaucratic cudgels. Heutzutage wird die Immunität als eine Art "Knüppel" eingesetzt, um Rechnungen zu begleichen, oder als "Kleingeld" verwendet, um Abgeordnete zu manipulieren. Nowadays, immunity is used as a kind of 'cudgel' for settling one's account or as 'loose change' for manipulation of Members of Parliament.
  • Prügelmonikko

Definition of cudgel

  • A short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon
  • Anything that can be used as a threat to force one's will on another
  • To strike with a cudgel
  • To exercise (one's wits or brains

Examples

  • The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates
  • The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters

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