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The term Muggle sail refers to the sexual organ of the male housefly.

A Muggeseggele (also Muggaseggele , Muggaseggel or Muggaseggl ) is a jokingly used, very small "unit" for length, volume, weight or time in the Alemannic dialect . It relates to the sexual organ of the male housefly .

In the Swabian dialect , the housefly with a body length of around seven millimeters is called "Mugg". The name Muggeseggele originally comes from the Latin saccellus , which means the scrotum . The term now refers to the aedeagus , the sperm-transmitting member of the housefly. An entomologist from the Stuttgart Natural History Museum measured this part of the housefly's body scientifically. According to his investigation, the average value is 0.22 millimeters. This corresponds to around 1 ⁄ 115  inches .

The "Seckel" is one of the few explicitly sexually connoted swear words in the German language, which is usually denigrated with expressions of the fecal language . On the other hand, the term Muggeseggele is not used as a swear word and is therefore also suitable for children. For example, in the children's and youth television series Ein Fall für BARZ from Südwestrundfunk (SWR), which is playing in Fellbach near Stuttgart, the Swabian phrase A muggeseggele Zeit hädde mer no! (High German 'We still have a bit of time!'). The phrase and its translation can also be found in the Swabian lexicon , which the SWR offers along with other information material in addition to this television series on its online portal SWR Kinderetz .

In 2009 the readers of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten voted “Schwabens smallest unit” as the most beautiful Swabian word by a large margin. Since the beginning of 2014, the private radio station Antenne 1 has been trying to bring the word in the spelling Muggaseggele into the Duden .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Dostert: Chinese in Swabia. The trainers from Albstadt . On: Süddeutsche.de . May 21, 2010; Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ Michael Petersen: "Swabian for Reigschmeckte." "What is a Muggaseggel, please?" ( Memento from June 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) On: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de . November 3, 2008.
  3. ↑ a b Hans-Martin Gauger : The damp and the dirty. Small linguistics of the vulgar language (=  Beck series. Volume 6038). Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62989-1 , introduction and pp. 30–36.
  4. ↑ Henning Petershagen: Swabian on request. 1 Muggaseggl = 0.22 millimeters . In: Data sheet measurement technology. Units of measurement →  Quality technology: Muggaseggl from September 15, 2010; PDF, 497 kB; Retrieved July 7, 2013.
  5. ↑ Schwäbisch-Lexikon ( Memento from June 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the children's and youth television series Ein Fall für BARZ by SWR On: online portal SWR Kinderetz; Retrieved July 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jan Sellner: Most beautiful Swabian word. Big advantage for Swabia's smallest unit . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . March 9, 2009; Retrieved July 14, 2013.
  7. ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, Germany: Antenna 1 fights for Muggaseggele: Schwabicisms for the Duden! In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de . ( stuttgarter-nachrichten.de [accessed November 7, 2018]).