Keks

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German

Kekse

Etymology

Borrowed from English cakes, 1900s. Popularized by German food company Bahlsen which changed the brand name of their biscuits from Leibniz-Cakes to Leibniz-Keks in 1911; at the time, the plural was also Keks. Compare Danish kiks, Estonian keeks, Faroese keks, Finnish keksi, Icelandic kex, Norwegian kjeks, and Swedish kex, all ‘cookie, biscuit, cracker’.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /keːks/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Keks m or n (strong, genitive Kekses, plural Kekse)

  1. cookie (US), biscuit (UK)
    Synonyms: Biskuit, Plätzchen
    • 1924, Theodor Birt, Auf Reisen: ein Ferienbuch, p. 101:
      Da sitzt leibhaftig Schillers Schwester: eine rötliche Blondine, noch ganz jung, die vor mir aus dem Fenster guckt und einen Keks zerbeißt.
      Schiller’s sister incarnate is sitting there: a strawberry blonde, still very young, looking out of the window in front of me and biting into a cookie.
    • 1935, Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ungarns Handel und Industrie im Jahre 1935, p. 123:
      Immer breitere Publikumsschichten gehen zum Konsum der Fabrikskekssorten über, die qualitativ besser und billiger sind, als die im Privathaushalt hergestellten Kekse.
      Ever broader classes of the public are going over to the consumption of factory-made cookie types that are qualitatively better and cheaper than cookies made in private homes.
    • 1968, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Getreideforschung, Brot und Gebäck, volumes 22-24, p. 45:
      In Wirklichkeit sind jedoch die atmosphärischen Ofenverhältnisse, sofern sie überhaupt bekannt sein können, nicht direkt bestimmend für die backtechnische Entwicklung des Brotes oder Kekses.
      In reality, however, the atmospheric conditions in the oven, to the extent they can be known at all, do not directly determine the baking development of the bread or cookie.

Usage notes

The word is always masculine in northern and central Germany. In the southern half of the language area it is often neuter.

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Hungarian: keksz
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȅks/ке̏кс

Further reading

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