tantig
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtantɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈtantɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
- Hyphenation: tan‧tig
Adjective
tantig (strong nominative masculine singular tantiger, comparative tantiger, superlative am tantigsten)
- typical of aunts
- 1999, Max Goldt, Okay Mutter, ich nehme die Mittagsmaschine – Beste Kolumnen, Zürich: Haffmans Verlag, →ISBN, page 79:
- Nichts drucken Zeitungen lieber und häufiger als tantige Artikel über die vermeintliche Uneffizienz der Bahn.
- Nothing newspapers love to print more than aunty articles about the imagined inefficiency of the Bahn.
- 2005, Aslı Sevindim, Candlelight Döner. Geschichten über meine deutsch-türkische Familie, Berlin: Ullstein, →ISBN, page 156:
- Immer wieder zupften ein paar furchtbar tantige Tanten an mir herum und säuselten etwas über meine unschuldige Schönheit.
- Without cease some terribly aunty aunts picked at me and purred something about my blameless beauty.
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Swedish
Adjective
tantig (comparative tantigare, superlative tantigast)
- (often derogatory) like or typical of a (stereo)typical middle-aged or older lady, old-fashioned, frumpy, "aunty"
- tantig frisyr
- "mom haircut"
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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