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schiech
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High German schiech, from Old High German *skioh, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuh. Doublet of scheu. Compare Bavarian schiach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
schiech (strong nominative masculine singular schiecher, comparative schiecher, superlative am schiechsten)
- (colloquial, regional, Bavaria, Austria) ugly
- (colloquial, regional, Bavaria, Austria) angry
Usage notes
The word is common in Bavaria and Austria, but is mostly confined to oral conversation in the local Bavarian dialects, where it would typically be pronounced [ʃɪɐ̯x]. Since the word only rarely appears in written form, and the dialectal [ɪɐ̯] diphthong very often corresponds to [iʁ] or [iːʁ] in the standard language, some speakers hypercorrectly pronounce the word [ʃɪʁç] and spell it schirch when using it in the context of Standard German.
Declension
Positive forms of schiech
Comparative forms of schiech
Superlative forms of schiech
Further reading
- “schiech” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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