Buckel
German edit
Alternative forms edit
- Puckel (northern Germany, dated)
Etymology edit
From Middle High German buckel, from Old French boucle, from Latin buccula.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Buckel m (strong, genitive Buckels, plural Buckel)
- boss
- hump
- (colloquial) back
- Synonym: Rücken
Declension edit
Declension of Buckel [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Buckel” in Duden online
- “Buckel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Buckel”, 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 112