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单词 wacker
释义

wacker

See also: Wacker

English

Noun

wacker (plural wackers)

  1. (UK, Liverpudlian) A Liverpudlian; a resident of Liverpool, England.
    • 1993, Anthony Griffiths, Scouse Wars, Bluecoat Press, →ISBN, page 6:
      Wackers are the inhabitants of the city of Liverpool – famed for their humour, football, dockers and judies. Wackers eat scouse and wet nellies. Wackers and Woollybacks are tough yet warm breeds. Although both are Northerners, they are different in many ways; culture and traditions and even language divides them.

Adjective

wacker

  1. comparative form of wack: more wack

References

  • wacker”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

  • awreck, cawker

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wacker, Old High German wacchar. Cognate with Old English wacor (whence dialectal English waker), Old Norse wakr, Dutch wakker and possibly German Low German wacker.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvakɐ/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: wa‧cker; pre-1996: wak‧ker

Adjective

wacker (strong nominative masculine singular wackerer, comparative wackerer, superlative am wackersten) (dated)

  1. brave
    Synonyms: mutig, tapfer
    • 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches [] [Human, All Too Human], 80:
      [] in jenen Zeiten als die Häupter der griechischen Philosophie und die wackersten römischen Patrioten durch Selbsttödtung zu sterben pflegten.
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  2. honest, reputable
    Synonyms: rechtschaffen, ehrlich, anständig, redlich
    • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]:
      Ich gäb’ was drum, wenn ich nur wüßt’, / Wer heut der Herr gewesen ist! / Er sah gewiß recht wacker aus, / Und ist aus einem edlen Haus;
      (please add an English translation of this quote)
  3. efficient
    Synonym: tüchtig
  4. alert, vigilant, waker
    Synonym: wachsam
    • 1545, Luther-Bibel, Lukas 21:36:
      So seid nun wacker allezeit und betet, daß ihr würdig werden möget, zu entfliehen diesem allem, was geschehen soll, und zu stehen vor des Menschen Sohn.
      Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.

Declension

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1883), wacker”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

  • wacker” in Duden online
  • wacker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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