Swedish:velputte

[normordm]

What does the word "velputte" mean? I saw it in the sentence:

...men för Ove kan bara en komplett jädrans velputte tycka att förlorad kontroll är en eftersträvansvärd upplevelse.

I'm guessing from "komplett jädrans" before it that it's not exactly positive but I couldn't find a translation.

Tack på förhand

 

[Segorian]

Velputte is a (mildly) derogatory word for someone who is indecisive, from vela, “to hesitate, be unable to choose”, and putte, normally a colloquial word for a small boy, but used as the second element of compound words describing adults. Another example is strulputte, “someone who is a lot of trouble because he tends to complicate things”.

(Apart from this, Putte is a very common nickname for men and also exists as a given name.)

 

[FluentSpeakerNot]

I've heard a similar word "velepotta" that seems to mean about the same thing based on what Segorian said.