backfisch
See also: Backfisch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbækfɪʃ/
Noun
backfisch (plural backfische or backfisches)
- A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:
- I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Backfisch, used in Swedish in the first two-thirds of the 20th century, but removed from more recent editions of SAOL.
Declension
| Declension of backfisch | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | backfisch | backfischen | backfischar | backfischarna |
| Genitive | backfischs | backfischens | backfischars | backfischarnas |
Synonyms
- flicksnärta
Related terms
- backfischfasoner
- backfischåldern
References
- backfisch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
- backfisch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (9th ed., 5th printing, 1954)
- backfisch in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (10th ed., 1st printing, 1973)
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