knusprig
Appearance
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- knusper (in the colloquial sense)
Etymology
[edit]Derived in the 19th century from knuspern (“to nibble audibly, to crunch”), borrowed around 1800 from German Low German knuspern. Apparently onomatopoeic in origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈknʊspʁɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈknʊspʁɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: knusp‧rig
Adjective
[edit]knusprig (strong nominative masculine singular knuspriger, comparative knuspriger, superlative am knusprigsten)
- crispy, crisp, crunchy
- Synonym: kross
- (colloquial, humorous, usually with noch or nicht mehr) in one's right mind; of full mental capacity
- Synonyms: richtig (im Kopf), bei Sinnen
Declension
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “knusprig” in Duden online