Gröfaz
German
Etymology
Clipping of größter Feldherr aller Zeiten (“greatest commander-in-chief of all time”). First attested in 1943, apparently coined to make a mockery of Nazi Germany's love of long and obtuse abbreviations. Coined to mock Adolf Hitler's megalomania.The term was most likely coined in Berlin, where the word "Fatzke" was in common use to describe a thoroughly unpleasant, arrogant person[1].While it would have earned you a prison sentence or more if you called Hitler a "Fatzke" in public, the phrase "GröFaZ" stopped just short of that and could always be explained as the "Größter Feldherr Aller Zeiten".Of course everyone would know what you really meant to say.
Noun
Gröfaz m (strong, genitive Gröfazes, no plural)
- (historical) Adolf Hitler
Declension
Declension of Gröfaz [sg-only, masculine, strong]
| singular | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Gröfaz |
| genitive | eines | des | Gröfazes |
| dative | einem | dem | Gröfaz, Gröfaze1 |
| accusative | einen | den | Gröfaz |
1Now uncommon, see notes.
References
- “Fatzke”, in (please provide the title of the work) (in German), accessed 2022-02-02