Fox devil game
Fuchsteufelswild is an adjective that describes a "very angry " reaction, reinforcing the emotions .
etymology
In the German dictionary of the Brothers Grimm it says about the adjective: so upset, as if you were completely the devil, upset in the highest degree: you have now the male fox as hell. FR. MÜLLER 1, 233. the expression is therefore stronger than wild fox. Tyrolean, at SCHÖPF 157; kärnt. fuchstoiflwilde. LEXER 104; zu Iglau fuxtaiflswild. FROMMANN mundarten 5, 469. The adjective foxswild is already used in the 16th century (among others by Hans Sachs ). The dictionary dispensed with an explanation. R. Becker thought of a connection between foxes and the old word fuck . d. H. drive back and forth briefly and quickly, strike, whip.
The dictionary publisher PONS , on the other hand, sees the struggling captive fox , which may have been infected with rabies , as the origin of the Tyrolean word fuchswild , which was later intensified emotionally by the addition of devil and became a phrase . In the digital dictionary of the German language of the 20th century , fuchsteufelswild becomes, according to Pfeiffer's etymological dictionary: “'very angry' (18th century); As in older fox game (16th century), fox has a reinforcing function ”.
literature
- Lutz Röhrich : Lexicon of proverbial sayings . Volume 2, p. 484 f. (Directmedia CD-ROM)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ fox devil wild . duden.de, accessed on August 4, 2013.
- ↑ fox devil wild. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 4 : Forschel – retainer - (IV, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1878, Sp. 357 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ R. Becker: Journal for German Lessons 6, 1892, p. 693 ff.
- ↑ Michael Krumm: Where is the dog buried? Idioms, terms, proverbs - how animals came into the German language . Klett 2010, p. 23; books.google.de in Google books ; Retrieved August 4, 2013.
- ↑ fox devil wild. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved August 2, 2019