I don’t know if the origin of “Dödel” really meant fool or simpleton, but in modern German it is little children speech for your little “peepee”, and it theres no other meaning for this word left. Perhaps back then it already had this meaning and it simply translates to “Yankee wiener” or something similar…
I don’t know if the origin of “Dödel” really meant fool or simpleton, but in modern German it is little children speech for your little “peepee”, and it theres no other meaning for this word left. Perhaps back then it already had this meaning and it simply translates to “Yankee wiener” or something similar…
It would appear so: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Dödel