Pausbacke
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- The word is documented since the 16th century.[1] It is a compound formed with the noun Backe and the stem of an obsolete verb whose (West Central German) Late Middle High German form was pūsen (see pusten) and whose Early New High German equivalent was pausen, bausen ‘to be blown-up; to billow, to distend; to swell; to be full of, to be bursting with’.[1] In Early New High German these forms were merged with the verb bauschen whose Middle High German equivalents were biuschen and būschen ‘to beat, to knock’ which was influenced semantically by them (see bauschen).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pausbacke f (genitive Pausbacke, plural Pausbacken)
- (colloquial, generally in the plural) chubby facial cheek with a red/reddish complexion (especially of a child)
- 1934, Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder: Roman. Volume 2: Der junge Joseph, S. Fischer, Berlin, p. 88 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):
Translation:
1944, Thomas Mann: Joseph and His Brothers. Volume 2: The Young Joseph, A. A. Knopf, New York, p. 62 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):- „Meine Pausbacken sind ebenfalls zart und weich“, bemerkte Benjamin und befühlte mit beiden Handflächen seine Wangen.
- “My chubby cheeks are soft and tender too,” Benjamin remarked, and felt his cheeks with both his little palms.
- 1934, Thomas Mann: Joseph und seine Brüder: Roman. Volume 2: Der junge Joseph, S. Fischer, Berlin, p. 88 (GoogleBooks; retrieved October 6, 2015):
Declension
[edit]Declension of Pausbacke [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Pausbacke | die | Pausbacken |
genitive | einer | der | Pausbacke | der | Pausbacken |
dative | einer | der | Pausbacke | den | Pausbacken |
accusative | eine | die | Pausbacke | die | Pausbacken |
Derived terms
[edit]- (regional) Pausback
- Pausbäckchen
- pausbäckig/(rarer) pausbackig
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Pausbacke” in Duden online
- “Pausbacke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pausbacke” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- “Pausbacke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon