Snot spoon

A snot spoon , derived from Laffe , is a swear word for a person (mostly a child or adolescent ) who appears cheeky, bold, arrogant or unteachable, but also grouchy, unruly and tearful. Comparable to a lout and a brat . The term can also be used as a lovingly used term. That arises from the context in which the term is used.

Snotty nose (derived from runny nose) is a scold word that describes a cheeky, cheeky and outrageous child. In contrast, snot spoon is a rather pejorative term.

literature

Klaus Müller: Lexicon of Sayings. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, 1994.ff

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Hirt: Etymology of the New High German Language; Presentation of the German vocabulary in its historical development. 1921, p. 270.
↑ ^a ^b mother tongue. Volume 67, Society for the German Language, Wiesbaden, 1958, p. 384 (Original in: Mother tongue. March 1958, p. 58.)
↑ Food culture and language. Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2006.
^ Etymological dictionary of German . dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03358-4 , p. 1141.
↑ German variant dictionary : the standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol. de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-016574-0 , p. 642.

Web links

Wiktionary: Snot spoon - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

[1] Hermann Hirt: Etymology of the New High German Language; Presentation of the German vocabulary in its historical development. 1921, p. 270.

[Deutsche_Sprache-2] mother tongue. Volume 67, Society for the German Language, Wiesbaden, 1958, p. 384 (Original in: Mother tongue. March 1958, p. 58.)

[3] Food culture and language. Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2006.

[4] Etymological dictionary of German . dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-03358-4 , p. 1141.

[5] German variant dictionary : the standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol. de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-016574-0 , p. 642.