Scharteke
German
Etymology
Middle Low German, perhaps from French charte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃaːteːkə/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -eːkə
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- (archaic, derogatory) old and worthless book
- Synonym: Schwarte
- 1908 [1900], Hermann Lauscher [pseudonym; Hermann Hesse], Hinterlassene Schriften und Gedichte von Hermann Lauscher:
- Der mitgebrachte Plato liegt auf dem Tisch. Elende Scharteke! Was ist mir Plato? Ich muß Menschen sehen, Wagen fahren hören, neue Bücher und Zeitungen aufschneiden und den frischen, unreifen Duft des schnellen Lebens atmen, […]
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- (derogatory) uncongenial old woman
- Synonym: Schabracke
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Further reading
- “Scharteke” in Duden online
- “Scharteke” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Scharteke”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 623
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