Posemuckel
German edit
Etymology edit
From Polish Podmokle Małe, a small village in western Poland.
Pronunciation edit
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Proper noun edit
Posemuckel n (proper noun, genitive Posemuckels or (optionally with an article) Posemuckel)
- Anytown
- Synonyms: Dingenskirchen, Hintertupfingen, Kleinkleckersdorf
- 1901, Hermann Heiberg, Charaktere und Schicksale[1]:
- „Sprich doch nicht so naives Zeug, Grete! Man sollte glauben, du lebtest in Posemuckel oder in einem anderen Nest —“
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading edit
- “Posemuckel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache