Day thief

Tagedieb [ˈtaːɡəˌdiːp] or Tagdieb is a German swear word that is rarely used . It denotes a person who is not engaged in serious, useful occupation and indulges in idleness . Similar designations are good for nothing , idler, no-good, lazy , slacker ne'er or Hallodri .

use

The expression was already in use in the 18th century. Even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe he used in his works, such as 1787 in his travelogue Italian Journey and in 1802 in his one-act What we bring , the prelude at the opening of the new theater to Lauchstaedt .

Johann Christoph Adelung describes the Tagedieb in Volume 4 of his Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , published in 1801, as follows:

"... a loiterer, a person who steals the days from God and time, spending them idly."

- Johann Christoph Adelung : Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. 1801.

Quotes

"If he sat here during the day, I would believe he was a lean, some day thief who leans against the houses so that he doesn't fall over from laziness."

- Clemens Brentano

"No thief of the day gets tired of rushing around for nothing: you spend your whole life idling in the sweat of your brow."

- Oscar Blumenthal

Work title

• In 1985, the film was made loafers by Marcel Gisler .
• Day thief and good-for-nothing is Hugo Wehner's report about his attempt to get out of everyday life while sailing .
• Tagedieb and Good-for-nothing is a story by Rainer Gross .

Others

The Tagedieb is also the name of an attack in the Pokémon video game series .

literature

• Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander (Hrsg.): German Proverbs Lexicon. Volume 4. Leipzig 1876, Sp. 1020 ( zeno.org ).
• day thief. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 21 : T – Treftig - (XI, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935, Sp. 61 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Web links

Wiktionary: Tagedieb  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Italian Journey - Naples - Naples, May 28, 1787. (No longer available online.) In: Wissen-im-netz.info. November 28, 2003, archived from the original on October 29, 2016 ; Retrieved October 29, 2016 . 
2. ^ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Liselotte Bäuerle Lohrer: Goethe: Comedy, Singspiele, satires, dramatic poems of time and occasional poems . Cotta, 1659, p. 1399 ( books.google.de ).
3. ↑ Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect. Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 520 ( zeno.org ).
4. ↑ Tagediebe in the International Movie Database, imdb.com, accessed on October 29, 2016.
5. ↑ Hugo Wehner: Day thief and nothing of the day . Delius Klasing, 1982, ISBN 3-7688-0392-9 .
6. ^ Rainer Gross: Tagedieb and good-for-nothing . Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-3947-7 .
7. ↑ Tagedieb. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .