Snuff
Schnuppe describes the charred, glowing protruding end of the wick of a burning candle , which is usually cut off so that the candle does not soot. In order not to burn yourself and not to let the sniff fall down, but to “blow your nose”, the wick scissors specially designed for this purpose are used .
Influence on colloquial language
The name shooting star for a meteor glowing in the night sky is derived from the falling glowing "snuff", which represented a fire risk with the candles of that time . This is based on the "popular belief that the falling star is a cleaning of the star, comparable to cleaning the light with a pair of scissors or by clearing the nose."
The derogatory phrase "this is my damn " (something like "I do not care") has emerged to something as worthless and indifferent to dismiss (as such wick end).
literature
- Snuff. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 15 : Schiefeln – Soul - (IX). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1899, Sp. 1393 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ kerzenfilzmoser.at/kerzenabc ( Memento from April 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Shooting Star. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 18 : Stehung – Stitzig - (X, 2nd section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1941, Sp. 2517-2818 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).