Eye candy

The title of this article is ambiguous. See also: Seelenlust & Augenweide , Die Augenweide , Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein Augenweide or Ougenweide .

The draftsman and author F. K. Waechter took the term "eye candy" literally and designed the Struwwelpeter tree, a slightly modified willow tree in the Komische Kunst series in Frankfurt's green belt

The noun Augenweide describes a very beautiful and beneficial sight in German. The term is not derived from the current meanings of willow as agricultural land or from the plant genus willow ( Salix ), but from the Middle High German meaning of “ willow ” as refreshment or food. A synonym for eye candy can be eye candy .

An ougen willow was already mentioned in the Nibelungenlied . In the Middle Ages, for example, Hesso von Rinach sang : Mines libes ougenweide / Dast diu liebu frowe min.

The music group Ougenweide alluded to the medieval spelling with its name. The Schleswig-Holstein Film Festival was called Augenweide until 2013 .

In the Most Beautiful Threatened Word competition , it was one of 47 words that were submitted six times or more.

Web links

Wiktionary: Eye candy  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Definition on Duden.de
• Eye candy. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved September 3, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A feast for the eyes. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 1 : A - Beer whey - (I). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1854, Sp. 813-814 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
2. ^ Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . Volume 1, columns 566-567
3. ↑ Results of the competition “The Threatened Word” accessed on May 22, 2014.