etepetete
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German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Low German. A reduplication of öte (“affected, finical”), dialectally ete, possibly influenced by French peut-être (“maybe”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]etepetete (indeclinable, predicative only)
- (informal, usually only predicative) hoity-toity, finical, affected, stilted
- Synonym: geziert
- 1969, Frank Wedekind, Werke: Dramen 1:
- Die einen sind hopp-hopp und die andern sind etepetete. Hermann: Ich bin Ihrer Ansicht nach natürlich etepetete. Anna: Wenn Sie nicht einmal sagen dürfen, wozu Sie all das viele Geld nötig haben... Hermann: Jedenfalls nicht, weil ich ...
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Declension
[edit]Indeclinable, predicative-only.
Further reading
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- German terms borrowed from German Low German
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- German 5-syllable words
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- Rhymes:German/eːtə
- Rhymes:German/eːtə/5 syllables
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
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