Kribskrabs
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication, compare Krimskrams.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]Kribskrabs m or n (strong, genitive Kribskrabs, no plural)
- (dated) confusion, hodgepodge
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Wald und Höhle”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One][1]:
- Vom Kribskrabs der Imagination / Hab’ ich dich doch auf Zeiten lang curirt;
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Kribskrabs [sg-only, masculine // neuter, strong]
Further reading
[edit]- “Kribskrabs” in Duden online
- “Kribskrabs” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Kribskrabs” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Kribskrabs”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891