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pickswatt
in Low German
Pronunciation:
/pɪksvat/
adjective
Syllabication:
pick·swatt
ungradable
[1]
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Emsland:
Wortliste des Heimatarchivs Lengerich.
Waldeck:
Karl Bauer:
Waldeckisches Wörterbuch nebst Dialektproben.
1902, Wörterliste, page 80
PDF, 25.4 MB
Holsteiner jüm-Gebiet:
Boysen van Nienkarken:
Leeder und Stückschen in Ditmarscher Platt.
Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1865, page 313
PDF, 3.1 MB
Schleswig:
Johann Rhode Friedrich Augustiny:
Achtern Åben oder Plattdütsches Vålksbok för Kinner un ole Lüd, tohopståkt un ut egen Fabrik.
Herzbruch, Flensburg 1857, page 16
PDF, 3.7 MB
Stader Geest:
Marcus Buck: attested by oral sources on the Stade Geest
Low Saxon:
düüster
swatt
English:
pitch-black
German:
pechschwarz
kohlrabenschwarz
tiefschwarz
Examples:
Fröher
,
as
dat
noch
keen
elektrischen
Stroom
geven
hett
,
weren
de
Nachten
noch
richtig
pickswatt
.
Etymology:
Compound word constructed from:
Pick
+
swatt
Rhyming words
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