Nonsense

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With balderdash from the 17th century was a bogey or Scarecrow meant. The word is originally derived from "Mummelputz" and "Mombotz" and combines the two words mummen and ( Hessian ) Booz or Butzemann (a child frightening figure with which children are buried). Mumpitz is a terrifying figure for fools .

The term then appeared on the Berlin stock exchange since the second half of the 19th century for “terrifying rumors ” or “dizzying talk”.

Today Mumpitz stands for " nonsense ", so it is a derogatory term. Mumpitz was a common expression of the long-time SPD parliamentary group chairman Herbert Wehner , who often only replied to provocative journalist questions: "That is mumpitz!"

The term Mumpitz is sometimes chosen as a name. For example, the figure “The Great Mumpitz” (in the English original: The Amazing Mumford) from Sesame Street is the namesake for several German magicians.

Mumpitz was also the name of a German folk band from Dinslaken / Oberhausen in the 1970 / 80s , which in 1979 released an LP with the name of their title song Seifenblasen .

See also

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

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Individual evidence

  1. Mumpitz -  soap bubbles at Discogs (English)