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Klammeraffe
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German
Etymology
From klammern (“to cling”) + Affe (“monkey”). In the informal sense “stapler”, perhaps reanalysed as Klammer (“staple”) + Affe.
Pronunciation
Noun
Klammeraffe m (weak, genitive Klammeraffen, plural Klammeraffen)
- spider monkey (Ateles)
- (humorous) stapler (device which binds together sheets of paper)
- (somewhat dated, colloquial, Internet) at sign (@)
- Synonym: at
- 2000, Josef Haslinger, Das Vaterspiel, S. Fischer, →ISBN, page 12:
- Hast du eine E-Mail-Adresse? R wie Rupert, dann Kramer, aber ohne Punkt dazwischen, dann der Klammeraffe, dann Vienna, Punkt, at.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Declension of Klammeraffe [masculine, weak]
Further reading
- “Klammeraffe” in Duden online
Klammeraffe on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- “Klammeraffe” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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