spuit elf

Etymology
. Literally, “hose eleven”; referring to the eleventh fire company. Querido glosses it as “mud hose”, compare, but why “eleven” is linked to “mud” is unclear. Hypotheses include:


 * from the concept of 11 as a crazy or incomplete number, not quite a dozen (cf. );
 * from an old firefighting figure of speech: by the time the eleventh fire hose arrives at the scene of a fire, the canal from which the fire brigade was drawing water may have only mud remaining.

Sometimes pronounced as if it is interpreted as a compound of or  and.

Noun

 * 1)  a nobody who is late in commenting or catching up, often one whose comment is ignorant or irrelevant
 * 2) * 1925, Israël Querido, "Mooie Karel", in De Jordaan. Amsterdamsch epos, part 4, Scheltens & Giltay (6th ed., first ed. 1924), page 435.
 * "nl"

- Karel wrong zich overeind en schreeuwde: - Louw kans, spuit Elf!.. Ik ferdom 't!... Is da kwant of nie?...