backfisch
See also: Backfisch
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Backfisch (“teenage girl”, literally “fish for baking”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]backfisch (plural backfische or backfisches)
- A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:
- I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]
Translations
[edit]teenage girl
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Backfisch, used in Swedish in the first two-thirds of the 20th century, but removed from more recent editions of SAOL.
Noun
[edit]backfisch c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | backfisch | backfischs |
| definite | backfischen | backfischens | |
| plural | indefinite | backfischar | backfischars |
| definite | backfischarna | backfischarnas |
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- backfisch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
- backfisch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (9th ed., 5th printing, 1954)
- backfisch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)
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