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Petzen is a negative connotation , especially in the language of children and schoolchildren, for " betray " or " chatter ", occasionally also "to carry", "reveal", colloquially also "unpack".
The word can be traced back to this meaning before the 18th century. The origin of the word is controversial and is partly traced back to the Low German inpetzen with its origins in the Middle Latin impetere , others see the origin in the student language , and an origin from the crook's language to Hebrew pạzạ̈ is not excluded. In the language of schoolchildren, it means reporting unwanted behavior to an authority figure, such as a teacher or parents. "Sneak" (rare sneak into a "male Sneak") as an expression for someone who stools, is a common (usually situationally applied) insult .
The betrayal - supposedly - of "misconduct" is also referred to as "whistling" or "blackening". Johann August Eberhard formulated in his Synonymic Concise Dictionary of the German Language 1910:
" Slandering and denigrating is blackening if it is done for the sake of one's own benefit and pleasure and out of a hateful disposition with the intention of arousing suspicion and suspicion in certain people ."
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- ↑ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, de Gruyter, Berlin 1999
- ↑ Product petzen on Google .com, accessed 13 April 2010
- ↑ Ulrich Ammon et al. a .: German variant dictionary . De Gruyter, 2004, p. 567, online in the Google book search
- ↑ sneak in Duden.de, accessed 14 April 2010
- ↑ Entry in Johann August Eberhard: Synonymic Concise Dictionary of the German Language (1910) on textlog.de