Tücke
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German tücke f, also tuc m (“conduct, procedure, move, trick”). Further origin unknown, perhaps expressive.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Tücke f (genitive Tücke, plural Tücken)
- (uncountable) malice, spite, deceit, guile, trickery
- mit List und Tücke ― with guile and malice
- 1799, Friedrich Schiller, Wallensteins Tod (Wallenstein trilogy)[1], 3. Aufzug, 10. Auftritt; republished as S. T. Coleridge, transl., The Death of Wallenstein, 1800:
- Das Schicksal liebt mich noch, denn eben jetzt, / Da es des Heuchlers Tücke mir entlarvt, / Hat es ein treues Herz mir zugesendet.
- Still loved by destiny; for in the moment / That it unmasks the plotting hypocrite / It sends and proves to me one faithful heart.
- (countable, often in the plural) pitfall, danger
- die Tücken des Alltags ― the pitfalls of everyday life
- 1998 June 25, Markus Franken, “Gründerzeit in Berlin”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[2], →ISSN, page 21:
- Selbst dann, wenn das Problem nicht von der snafu-Software herrührt, sondern von alten Programmen auf dem heimischen Rechner, einem Wechsel des Betriebssystems oder den Tücken der „Datenfernübertragung“ unter Windows.
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Declension
[edit]Declension of Tücke [feminine]
Derived terms
[edit]- Heimtücke
- Hintertücke
- tückisch
- Tücke des Objekts (“the malice of inanimate objects”)
Further reading
[edit]- “Tücke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Tücke” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Tücke” in Duden online
- “Tücke” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- J. C. Adelung (1793–1801) “Tücke”, in Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart (in German), 2nd edition
- “Tücke” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Tücke on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Tücke”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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