Räuberpistole
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Räuber + Pistole, in its story sense originally a Berlin colloquialism often in reference to disingenuously constructed crime fiction, also supported by a jargonic verb räubern (“to fib, to tell tall stories”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Räuberpistole f (genitive Räuberpistole, plural Räuberpistolen)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Räuberpistole [feminine]
singular | plural | ||||
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | eine | die | Räuberpistole | die | Räuberpistolen |
genitive | einer | der | Räuberpistole | der | Räuberpistolen |
dative | einer | der | Räuberpistole | den | Räuberpistolen |
accusative | eine | die | Räuberpistole | die | Räuberpistolen |
Further reading[edit]
- “Räuberpistole” in Duden online
- “Räuberpistole” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Räuberpistole” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- Meyer, Hans (1904) Der richtige Berliner in Wörtern und Redensarten, 5th edition, Berlin: H.S. Hermann, page 96a
- Schmidt, Immanuel, Tanger, Gustav, editors (1896), “fish story”, in Flügel-Schmidt-Tanger: A Dictionary of the English and German Languages for Home and School: English / Wörterbuch der Englischen und Deutschen Sprache für Hand- und Schulgebrauch, volume 1: English-German, Braunschweig: George Westermann, page 264b