Schlafmütze
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃlaːfˌmʏtsə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Schlaf‧müt‧ze
Noun
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- nightcap
- 1826, Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, page 3; republished as Bayard Quincy, transl., Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, 1955:
- Da trat der Vater aus dem Hause; er hatte schon seit Tagesanbruch in der Mühle rumort und die Schlafmütze schief auf dem Kopfe […]
- Suddenly my father came out; he had been making a rumpus in the mill since daybreak, and his nightcap sat awry on his head.
- (figuratively) slowcoach, sleepyhead
- 2021 June 24, Bernhard Pötter, quoting Horst Köhler, “Bürger:innen gestalten Klimapolitik: Unterschätzt uns nicht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
- Köhlers Fazit: „Die Bürger sind keine Schlafmützen, sie wollen sich kümmern.“
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Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Schlafmütze” in Duden online
- “Schlafmütze” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schlafmütze” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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