wacker

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

wacker (plural wackers)

  1. (UK, Liverpool) 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[edit]

wacker

  1. comparative form of wack: more wack

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. brave
    Synonyms: mutig, tapfer
    • 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches [] [1], section 80:
      [] in jenen Zeiten als die Häupter der griechischen Philosophie und die wackersten römischen Patrioten durch Selbsttödtung zu sterben pflegten.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. honest, reputable
    Synonyms: rechtschaffen, ehrlich, anständig, redlich
  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.

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References[edit]

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

Further reading[edit]

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