schiech

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle High German schiech, from Old High German *skioh, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh. Doublet of scheu. Compare Bavarian schiach.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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schiech (strong nominative masculine singular schiecher, comparative schiecher, superlative am schiechsten)

  1. (colloquial, regional, Bavaria, Austria) ugly
  2. (colloquial, regional, Bavaria, Austria) angry

Usage notes

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The word is common in Bavaria and Austria, but is mostly confined to oral conversation in the local Bavarian dialects, where it would typically be pronounced [ʃɪɐ̯x]. Since the word only rarely appears in written form, and the dialectal [ɪɐ̯] diphthong very often corresponds to [iʁ] or [iːʁ] in the standard language, some speakers hypercorrectly pronounce the word [ʃɪʁç] and spell it schirch when using it in the context of Standard German.

Declension

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Further reading

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  • schiech” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache