Schnieke

The title of this article is ambiguous. For further meanings see under Schnieke (definition of terms )

Schnieke is a Berlin adjective that is used for the look and clothing of people in the sense of chic or elegant or for events or suggestions in the sense of great or great. Schnieke is often used in the sense of chic as "fashionable, pretty".

The word is derived from a Low German adjective snicker or snigger , which means pretty.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/schnieke
2. ↑ Klaus-Peter Rosenberg: The Berlin dialect - and its consequences for the students, p. 146
3. ^ Language change in literary translations: Aragon, Salinger, Orwell - page 72 online