Pinkel
See also: pinkel
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Low German Pinkel, perhaps from Pink (“pinkie, penis”); compare Dutch pink.
Noun edit
Pinkel m (strong, genitive Pinkels, plural Pinkel)
- (colloquial) dandy, toff
Declension edit
Declension of Pinkel [masculine, strong]
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From East/Saterland Frisian pinkel (literally “rectum”), perhaps the word originally meant "penis" or more generally "tip, upper part," of obscure ultimate origin; perhaps related to Proto-West Germanic *pinnā or otherwise borrowed from a substrate. Compare Etymology 1 above.
Noun edit
Pinkel f (genitive Pinkel, plural Pinkeln)
- (Northern Germany) type of smoked blood sausage
Declension edit
Declension of Pinkel [feminine]
Further reading edit
- Pinkel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Pinkel on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “dandy” in Duden online
- “sausage” in Duden online
- “Pinkel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pinkel” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.