Hundsfott (swear word)

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The term Hundsfott (plural Hundsfötter) is an old swear word that is mainly used today to denote cowardice , meanness or wickedness . In the Hessian dialect there is the synonym Drenefutt , in the Bavarian Hifthud .

It has been used as a swear word since the 16th century. The word is derived from the Middle High German fud for the outer genitalia of a bitch ( Latin vulva canina ). It finds its way into literature in various ways, for example by Friedrich von Logau (poem Schmähliche Feigheit 1654), Friedrich Schiller ( Die Räuber , 4th act, 5th scene) or Johann Gottfried Herder . The latter writes in his fragments about the more recent German literature (1766): "Creeping courtesy, [...] senseless titular and kicker flattery, that sweet devotion that [...] could hardly be called anything other than German dog-feeding."

In the student language since the 17th century, Hundsfott is considered to be serious, from the 18th century onwards as a so-called "no commentary flourish ", that is, an insult outside the rules of lad honor . At the ritual celebration of the father of the country , after the Niemann song “Alles Schweige” has been sung, a repetitive stanza for the well-being of the federal brother is added, which contains the sentence “a becket that should scold him”.

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Web links

Wiktionary: Hundsfott  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ becket. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877, Sp. 1934 f . ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  2. ↑ For more information, see Wander: German Proverbs Lexicon