Schlunze

German

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃlʊnt͡sə/
• Hyphenation: Schlun‧ze

Noun

Schlunze f (genitive Schlunze, plural Schlunzen)

1. (Northern Germany, Central Germany, colloquial) Synonym of Schlampe (“someone, particularly a woman, sloppy or lazy; a sket”)

Declension

Declension of Schlunze [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Schlunze	die	Schlunzen
genitive	einer	der	Schlunze	der	Schlunzen
dative	einer	der	Schlunze	den	Schlunzen
accusative	eine	die	Schlunze	die	Schlunzen

Derived terms

• schlunzig

Further reading

• “Schlunze” in Duden online
• “Schlunze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Schlunze” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Brehm, Helene (1910) “Volkstümliches aus Abterode. II”, in Hessenland, volume 24, number Nr. 11, page 148a