Schlampe
German
Etymology
Related to Middle High German schlampen (cp. Bavarian schlàmpen (Tirolisch), schlampen (Bayerisch), schlumpen (Bayerisch)). Cognate to English schlump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃlampə/
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Noun
Schlampe f (genitive Schlampe, plural Schlampen, diminutive Schlämpchen n, masculine Schlamperich or Schlamper)
- (derogatory) unkempt woman, one who is lazy in grooming her body or her domestic environment
- 1918, Hugo Ball, Flametti:
- “Her damit!” schrie Jenny und riß es ihr aus der Hand. “Wo kommt dieser Fleck her?”
“Theres!” jammerte sie, “diese Schlampen haben mir das ganze Handtuch eingeschmiert!”- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (vulgar, derogatory) sexually promiscuous woman, slut
- 1914, Johannes R. Becher, “Päan des Aufruhrs”, in Verfall und Triumph:
- Ihr Hurenvölker, Metzen, aller Länder Schlampen! / Die euch zermalmt, steinerne Flut, sie naht.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Further reading
- “Schlampe” in Duden online
- “Schlampe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Schlampe” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Schlampe”, 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 634
- Schlampe on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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