abgeschmackt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German abgeschmackt.
Adjective
[edit]abgeschmackt (comparative more abgeschmackt, superlative most abgeschmackt)
- Outrageous; tasteless.
- 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 341–342:
- 1935, Camillo Pellizzi, translated by Rowan Williams, English Drama: The Last Great Phase, Macmillan, page 154:
- The play, which did not have a success, has a dark, vibrant beauty of its own; it recalls Pirandello, and the abgeschmackt post-war German drama.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of earlier abgeschmack (with the same meaning). Equivalent to ab- + Geschmack (“taste”) + -t.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]abgeschmackt (strong nominative masculine singular abgeschmackter, comparative abgeschmackter, superlative am abgeschmacktesten)
- outrageous, tasteless, vulgar
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Hexenküche”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil[1]:
- Nein, sage mir, was soll das werden? / Das tolle Zeug, die rasenden Geberden, / Der abgeschmackteste Betrug, / Sind mir bekannt, verhaßt genug.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1912 May 15, Erich Mühsam, chapter 3, in Tagebücher 1910–1924, published 1994, →ISBN:
- Als er heute nachmittag mich im Hofgarten noch mal deswegen stellte, wiederholte ich ihm, daß ich mit Leuten nichts zu tun haben will, die sich derartig abgeschmackter Roheiten schuldig machen.
- When he confronted me again this afternoon in the court garden, I repeated that I don't want to be involved with people who are found guilty such tasteless crudeness.
- corny, fatuous
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg, volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 152:
- […] eine symmetrisch gebaute und abgeschmackte Operettenmelodie klang durch das Dunkel herüber, und Hans Castorp pfiff sie im Flüstertone mit (man kann ja flüsternd pfeifen), während er mit seinen kalten Füßen unter dem Federdeckbett den Takt dazu schlug.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: abgeschmackt
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abgeschmackt
Further reading
[edit]- “abgeschmackt” in Duden online
- “abgeschmackt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German abgeschmackt (“outrageous, tasteless, vulgar”), from earlier abgeschmack (“outrageous, tasteless, vulgar”), equivalent to both ab-, from German ab (“from”), from Middle High German ab, from Old High German ab (“of”), from Proto-Germanic *ab (“away, away from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and Geschmack (“taste, flavour”), from Old High German gismac, gismah, smac from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (“taste, savour, smatch, flavour”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeg- (“taste”), and -t (“-ed”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]abgeschmackt (neuter singular abgeschmackt, definite singular and plural abgeschmackte, comparative mer abgeschmackt, superlative mest abgeschmackt)
- (literary, obsolete) abgeschmackt; disgusting, gross, tasteless
- 1877, Arne Garborg, Den ny-norske Sprog- og Nationalitetsbevægelse, page 114:
- de, som har forsøgt [å skildre det nasjonale på dansk-norsk], har maattet knote, unaturligt lægge an paa norskhed, og det er baade abgeschmackt og usandt
- those who have tried [to describe the national in Danish-Norwegian], have had to knot, unnaturally rely on Norwegianness, and it is both abgeschmackt and untrue
Derived terms
[edit]- abgeschmackthet (“tastlessness”)
References
[edit]- “abgeschmackt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
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