Sitzfleisch
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From German Sitzfleisch, from sitzen (“to sit”) + Fleisch (“flesh”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈzɪtsflaɪʃ/
Noun [edit]
Sitzfleisch (uncountable)
- The ability to endure or carry on with an activity.
- 1947, Frank Vigor Morley, "My One Contribution to Chess", Chess Notes, Faber & Faber (1947):
- Sitzfleisch: a term used in chess to indicate winning by use of the glutei muscles--the habit of remaining stolid in one's seat hour by hour, making moves that are sound but uninspired, until one's opponent blunders through boredom.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin (2004), page 203,
- He never dallied with the image, beloved of the Renaissance, of the lean and shrunk-shanked scholar, possessed of infinite Sitzfleisch and inured to pain.
- 1947, Frank Vigor Morley, "My One Contribution to Chess", Chess Notes, Faber & Faber (1947):
German [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From sitzen ‘to sit’ + Fleisch ‘flesh’.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈzɪt͡sflaɪʃ/
Noun [edit]
Sitzfleisch n
- ability to sit still, Sitzfleisch
