Hundsfott (swear word)
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”.
literature
- 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 ).
- Becket . In: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander : German Proverbs Lexicon. Volume 2. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, columns 905 f.
- Crescentius Gregarius Silenus: Hortus injuriarum or: The fine Couleurbummel . Potopolis [ Books on Demand , Norderstedt] 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-8786-9 , pp. 49, 52, 105.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ↑ For more information, see Wander: German Proverbs Lexicon