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An early teat, the Opel tree frog

Nuckelpinne is a sloppy, joking as well as derogatory term used regionally for a small, weakly motorized automobile or generally smaller vehicle (for example a motorcycle ). According to Hermann Paul's German dictionary , it was used to describe a small boat.

In 2007, the term, which was already used in the 1920s, was among the German-language proposals submitted in the international competition The most beautiful ABC in the world , but it could not achieve any of the three winners.

origin

Push of a Hanomag 2/10 PS at a GDR - classic car rally

A very early mention can be found in the book Automobil-Touristik from 1920. The origin of the term itself is unclear. There is early evidence that the term was used primarily in Berlin . In the Berlin dialect at the end of the 19th century, the verb “suckle” was used for being idle , being slow ; "Nuckelfritze" was a slow, quiet person , also "Nusselpinne" referred to a slow person . “ Pinne ” is an expression from shipbuilding and was also used for a small nail in the Berlin dialect of the late 19th century .

On the show Why? Therefore! with Simone Panteleit , a knowledge section in  Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 , and in the accompanying book in 2013 the combination of “tiller” (something small) and “sucking” (moving slowly) was named as an explanation. According to Panteleit, unspecified Internet sources make the Bavarian comedian Weiß Ferdl responsible for the distribution. In 1930 Ferdl had recorded a Bavarian-Berlin radio sketch called Kurvendialog ; his Berlin sidekick Paul Westermeier used the expression there for a Hanomag 2/10 PS . The small car had a characteristic pontoon body and was the first German automobile to be produced on an assembly line .

distribution

The German dictionary of variants now sees the term widespread throughout Germany with the exception of the southeast. There terms like Schnauferl are more common, in Austria about Spuckerl , in Switzerland more like the box or even the rust pile . In colloquial terms, Tuckpider is used condescendingly or with an amused undertone, as for example in the Duden about German idioms : Do you want to get across the Alps with this Tuckpider? That can be fun! In December 2006, the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was eliminated from a candidate with zero euros who answered the question of the meaning of the term "pecking" (solution options: A: beer bottles, B: cars, C: cigars, D: nipples ) had opted for the “beer bottles” solution. The Oxford Dictionary translates the term as old banger or old crate . The explanation of the term "Nuckelpinne" can be found not only in German-language dictionaries, but also, for example, in English books on German slang expressions and also in Polish-language dictionaries.

CityEL , three-wheeled light vehicle with electric drive

The term is used controversially for small cars with electric drives . In 2011, the taz named in an article about the electric car pioneer Karl Nestmeier (see Smiles AG ), his CityEL as one of the leading teats in the sales statistics . Nestmeier enthusiastically commented on a rally turnaround with the sportier Tazzari Zero with yes, an electric car is not a nipple! What the interviewer John Gernert as typically German and with reference to nest Meier's youth in a Autoland commented.

In 2006, in an interview , Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche addressed not only the emotional impact, but also the reliability of the vehicles as a central point for market success - especially in the USA. The competitor Toyota had managed, in the understanding of the customers, to no longer stand for unreliable pimples , but for reliably valid cars; when it comes to the emotional impact, he still sees Daimler ahead. Because of the increased reliability, it is speculated elsewhere that the term "nipple spider" would also be increasingly threatened or endangered.

Types of cars

In the 1950s and 1960s, small cars such as the Lloyd 300 or cabin scooters such as the BMW Isetta were referred to as dummies in West Germany . The often-ridiculed microcar introduced important pacemaker in West Germany after the Second World War onset of mass motorization is. Already in the 1970s led the mirror in his article from the teat tiller in the state carriage , the tendency of the West German car buyers to heavier cars with larger engines. In other countries - such as with the kei cars in Japan - small cars or, as in Italy and throughout Asia, scooter vehicles are and will remain an important vehicle segment. The Trabant , which was built in the GDR from 1961, was also initially considered a modern small car. Similar car bodies made of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP), such as the three-wheeled Reliant Robin , which is registered as a motorcycle, were bestsellers in Great Britain. At the time of reunification , however, the Trabant was hopelessly outdated and underpowered from a West German point of view, so that the teat pider was also used for it.

In addition to referring to cars, the term is occasionally used for a motorcycle or generally for an old, smaller vehicle, as well as for the three-wheeled delivery vans that were common before the war and that were still widespread in Italy (see Ape ) and Asia, among others .

Literature and radio play

Ferdinand Weisheitinger
alias Weiß Ferdl (1937)
  • In his sketch, Kurvendialog , the (Berlin) partner of the Bavarian humorist Weiß Ferdl used the expression teat spider in the 1930s .
  • In 1937, Hans Fallada quotes the expression in his novel Wolf among wolves : "Of course, it is really not such a showpiece as the Prackwitz car, it is a real Opel tree frog , a teat pider ."
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst's novel 08/15 focuses on the difference between the smaller VW Kübelwagen and the Mercedes-Benz Type 340 Kübel of the Wehrmacht with “this is not a dumpster,… this is a Mercedes bucket ” .
  • In the summer of 1955, the NWDR broadcast a radio play by the author Marianne Eichholz with the title Nuckelpinne fahrready . Involved were u. a. the actors and radio play speakers Wolff Lindner and Kurt Klopsch , directed by Gert Westphal . The show was part of a series with the motto cheerful for summer days. It started with a piece called Motor Scooters and ended with The Cow on the Cooler . At that time, the radio play made more artistic and contemporary claims with more series.
  • Roy Etzel , Werner Tauber: Nuckelpinne , Carnon, Munich (1965)
  • Robert Gernhardt : Through Bella Italia with the teat spider . Short story. In: roller coaster. A reader . Insel-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-17553-7 , pp. 66-73 .
  • From the teat to the state car . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1972 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duden entry
  2. ^ Hermann Paul , German Dictionary, 10th revised and expanded edition, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-484-73057-9 , p. 713.
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  4. ^ Velhagen & Klasings monthly books . Velhagen & Klasings, September 1931, p. 183.
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  13. ↑ The TV nation laughed at these candidates . Stern (online) October 17, 2014
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  19. ^ Bernhard Walker: Threatened Words , Badische Zeitung, September 8, 2012; accessed on February 15, 2016.
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  21. ↑ Duck and Tree Frog: The Most Popular Car Nicknames , auto-news.de, accessed on January 26, 2016
  22. ↑ From the teat to the state car . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1972 ( online ).
  23. ^ Frank Pergande: 50 Years of Trabi: Rennpappe, Asphaltpickel, Nuckelpinne , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 7, 2007, faz.net, accessed on January 26, 2016
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  26. ↑ Mother tongue . Society for the German Language, 1981, p. 174.
  27. ^ Christian Scholz: New Swiss Words: Dialect and Everyday Life . Huber, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7193-1212-1 , p. 37.
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