Klitsche (colloquial language)

Klitsche is a colloquial , pejorative -geringschätziges word for a small, meager, impoverished estate, a village, a farm, a business or a factory. There is also the meaning of ' smear theater '.

etymology

The word is originally mainly East German; In the 19th century it exists in the Silesian and Upper Saxon dialect and means 'small poor country estate, old house, mud hut'. Therefore it could be borrowed from Polish kleć , poor building, mud house .

Another explanation looks for the origin in the verb klitschen 'bright clap, stick' (therefore also soaking wet ), then in the sense of 'quickly clanked' or 'erected on loamy, slippery ground'. klitschen has been detectable since the 16th century. The Grimm dictionary (19th century) also gives Klitsche the related meanings 'fly swatter', ' Klatschrose ', 'Schmitze at the front of the whip '.

Web links

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

• Usage examples in the text corpus of the digital dictionary of the German language (DWDS)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Klitsche. In: Duden - The German spelling. ( duden.de )
2. ↑ Klitsche. In: Dictionary of contemporary German . 1969, quoted from DWDS
3. ↑ ^{a b} klitsche. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 1211 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymological Dictionary of German, entry Klitsche, Berlin 1989, quoted from DWDS
5. ↑ Wolfgang Pfeifer : Etymological Dictionary of German, entry klitschen, Berlin 1989, quoted from DWDS