schnurstracks
German edit
Etymology edit
Schnur (“cord, line”) + stracks (“directly”)
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
schnurstracks
- (colloquial) straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and by the shortest way possible)
- Synonym: geradewegs
Synonyms edit
- While the dated simplex stracks is synonymous with sofort and thus chiefly temporal, schnurstracks also has a strongly spatial dimension.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “schnurstracks” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “schnurstracks” in Duden online
- “schnurstracks” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon