Land bitter orange
The term Landpomeranze originates from the early 19th century and is an art term like the terms “ go for a walk ”, “ romanticism ”, “ Biedermeier ”, “highest railway” or “blümerant”, which were also created during this period .
Origin and meaning
The term is related to the tropical fruit bitter orange (bitter orange) . It is regarded as a student word creation from southern Germany in the Biedermeier period , as a term for young girls "from the country " who were inexperienced and whose cheeks had the fresh, reddish glow of bitter oranges. The use of the term was later expanded to include a woman with awkward demeanor and no knowledge of propriety rules.
The first literary use is documented in Wilhelm Hauff's The Man in the Moon from 1825:
"[...] no, it was too rude; with others he had won almost without a swipe after the first preliminaries , and this little country pom-pom had impressed him so much that, after she had once rejected him with contempt, he did not dare to try again [...]. "
The term is now also used gender-neutral for men with a rural-provincial background.
literature
- Otto Ladendorf: Historical key word book , 1906. Entry Landpomeranze
Web links
- Landpomeranze on Redensarten-Index.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Seidel : It's about the sausage: what's behind our words . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-41302-2 (240 pages, limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Christoph Gutknecht : Puff cake! Lauter culinary word stories , p. 21, CH Beck Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-406-47621-X
- ^ Wilhelm Hauff: The man in the moon , in: W. Hauffs all works. Edition in 10 volumes, 7th volume, Stuttgart 1837