Kribskrabs

German

Etymology

Reduplication, compare Krimskrams.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

(dated) confusion, hodgepodge
Synonyms: Gemisch, Wirrwarr
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Wald und Höhle”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎:
  Vom Kribskrabs der Imagination / Hab’ ich dich doch auf Zeiten lang curirt;
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading

“Kribskrabs” in Duden online
“Kribskrabs” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Kribskrabs” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Friedrich Kluge (1883), “Kribskrabs”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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