vögeln

See also: Vögeln

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈføːɡl̩n/, /ˈføːɡəln/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: vö‧geln

Etymology 1

From Middle High German vogelen, vogeln, from Old High German fogalōn (“catch birds”). Related to Vogel (“bird”), from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleu (“to flow, to float”). Cognate with English fowl.

Alternative forms
  • vogeln

Verb

vögeln (weak, third-person singular present vögelt, past tense vögelte, past participle gevögelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (dated) to catch birds (compare "angeln")
    • 1752, Johann Ulrich Steinhofer, Neue Wirtenbegische Chronik 3ter Theil, A.C, published 1485, page 430:
      Wer Vogel ausnimmt oder verderbt in den Wälden, soll geben 1. fl. Wer vogelt mit Kleb oder Leim, 2. fl. […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (dated) to be itinerant, to flit from place to place
    • 1899, Richard Wossidlo, Mecklenburgische Volksüberlieferungen: Zweiter Band, page 29:
      Der sperling ist ein vögelein, er vögelt hin und her, und wenn er bei seinem liebchen kommt, dann vögelt er noch mehr.
      The sparrow is a little bird, he flits about to and fro, and when he's with his sweetheart, then he has sex even more.
Conjugation

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Etymology 2

Probably ultimately from the Germanic root *fug-, like ficken ("fuck"). Compare the Limburgish verbs vogelen, fokkelen, both used of birds with the meaning "to mate". Specific application to birds probably results from similarity to the word Vogel.

Alternative forms

Verb

vögeln (weak, third-person singular present vögelt, past tense vögelte, past participle gevögelt, auxiliary haben)

  1. (of birds) to mate
  2. (vulgar) to have sexual intercourse
    • 1899, Richard Wossidlo, Mecklenburgische Volksüberlieferungen: Zweiter Band, page 29:
      Der sperling ist ein vögelein, er vögelt hin und her, und wenn er bei seinem liebchen kommt, dann vögelt er noch mehr.
      The sparrow is a little bird, he flits about to and fro, and when he's with his sweetheart, then he has sex even more.
    • 1904, Anthropophyteia, Jahrbücher für Folkloristische Erhebungen und Forschungen zur Entwicklunggeschichte der geschlechtlichen Moral, published by Friedrich S. Krauss, page 200:
      Am nächsten Tag befragte der Sohn den Vater, wie oft er gevögelt habe und der Vater antwortete: […]
      The next day, the son asked the father how often he had had sex, and the father answered: […]
    • 2009, Darja Behnsch, Bella Donna, →ISBN, page 67:
      Du bist wirklich die geilste Braut, die ich jemals gevögelt hab', Marie!
      You're really the hottest bird that I've ever fucked, Marie!
Conjugation

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Further reading
  • “vögeln” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “vögeln” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “vögeln” in Duden online
  • “vögeln” in OpenThesaurus.de
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