spitz

From German Spitz, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value); so called from the tapering shape of its muzzle.[1]

• IPA^(key): /spɪts/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪts

Homophone: spits

spitz (plural spitzes)

1. Any of several Nordic breeds of dog such as the Pomeranian or Samoyed

spitz m

1. summit, peak

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Spitze.

• IPA^(key): /ʃpɪt͡s/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪt͡s
• Homophone: Spitz

spitz (strong nominative masculine singular spitzer, comparative spitzer, superlative am spitzesten)

1. pointed, pointy
2. sharp
3. spiky
4. (colloquial) horny
   • 2004 March 18, “Gar nicht spitz”, in Die Zeit‎:

     Eigentlich sagt der Volksmund ja „Lakritz macht spitz“. Die gegenteilige Befürchtung ist erst im vergangenen Jahr wieder wissenschaftlich untersucht worden.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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• anspitzen
• Spitz
• Spitzmaus
• Spitzname
• spitz wie ein Rettich

• → Dutch: spits
• → Saterland Frisian: spits

spitz

1. singular imperative of spitzen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of spitzen

• “spitz” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “spitz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “spitz” in Duden online