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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)

  1. (colloquial, regional, Bavaria, Austria) ugly
  2. (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

Further reading

  • schiech” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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