Heavy hum

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As a force Grumpy impressive because of their body size is colloquially woman called.

etymology

Linguistically, the term, which is composed of “stunner” and “hum”, the colloquial expression for bumblebees , has been used since the 1960s and was initially considered a jargon expression and group language synonym for “pretty girl”. The expression was already a buzzword in the 1970s, which quickly became a cliché and was intended to show that it belonged to certain (seemingly youthful) circles. At the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s, the term initially turned negative again, especially with reference to the respective weight of those addressed. For some years now, the term has also been given positive connotations for self-confident women “who shape their lives with a lot of drive and energy”.

use

The writer Tatjana Kruse uses the term in crime novels and novels such as Wuchtbrummenalarm or Die Wuchtbrumme to describe full-figured single women who do not let themselves get down.

The Hamburg period used the term for the singer Pink . She expresses that a woman's waist size does not have to be inversely proportional to her social position. Staging physical abundance was previously limited to black musicians, from Queen Latifah , Neneh Cherry to Miriam Makeba or Missy Elliott .

In colloquial usage, Wuchtbrumme also has a negative connotation, as the term here often refers to a woman whose physical size is associated with "massive".

Trivia

At the former American airline Pan American , several Boeing 727s used for West Berlin flights were temporarily given the name Clipper Wuchtbrumme during the Cold War .

The editorial staff of Deutsche Welle declared the term “Word of the Week” on July 1, 2013 and named Beth Ditto and Cindy from Marzahn as examples of a positive cast of the word .

literature

  • Duden editorial team: From ass violin to heavy hum: The 333 funniest swear words . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-91142-4 ( google.com [accessed August 7, 2020]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles VJ Russ: The German language today: a linguistic introduction. Routledge Publishing, 1994, ISBN 0-415-10438-6 , p. 51.
  2. ↑ a b c Hanna Grimm: The Wuchtbrumme. In: Deutsche Welle . July 1, 2013, accessed on August 7, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ The poetic metaphor. Examines Puskin's poetry. - Munich: Fink (1974). 207 p. 8 °, Astrid Forberger, W. Fink, 1974
  4. ↑ Petra Cnyrim: The book of almost forgotten words . Riva Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95971-242-2 ( google.com [accessed August 7, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Tatjana Kruse: The Wuchtbrumme. Of murder, manslaughter and female paranoia. Verlag der Criminale, ISBN 3-935877-79-X .
  6. ^ Susanne Messmer: Music: Die Wuchtbrumme. Why the singer Pink is different from all the hardworking, disciplined heroines of pop. In: THE TIME. November 20, 2003 No. 48.
  7. ↑ Big hum. Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  8. ^ Names of the Pan Am Clippers , PDF