Sitzfleisch

English

Sitzfleisch

(countable) The ability to endure or carry on with an activity.
- 1947, Frank Vigor Morley, “My One Contribution to Chess”, in Chess Notes, Faber & Faber:
  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, published 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.
- 2019 May 16, A.J. Goldmann, “A Festival of German Theater, Where More Is More”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  This year’s installment of Theatertreffen Berlin, the spring festival of the best of German-language theater that has been going strong since 1964, required some sitzfleisch — that is, the ability to stay planted on your derrière without fidgeting for the duration of a Wagner opera.
(slang) A person's bottom; the posterior.
- 1987, The Lexington Reader, page 530:
  Just as he was snorting and puffing like a grampus, I chanced to observe a quite formidable scar on his Sitzfleisch. With an apology for the personal nature of the question, I asked if it was a war wound of some kind.

From sitzen (“to sit”) +‎ Fleisch (“flesh”).

Sitzfleisch n (strong, genitive Sitzfleisches or Sitzfleischs, no plural)

(colloquial) buttocks
Synonym: Gesäß
(colloquial, by extension) ability to sit still, Sitzfleisch
Diese Tätigkeit erfordert sehr viel Sitzfleisch.
This activity requires a lot of Sitzfleisch.

Declension of Sitzfleisch [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Sitzfleisch
genitive	eines	des	Sitzfleisches, Sitzfleischs
dative	einem	dem	Sitzfleisch, Sitzfleische¹
accusative	ein	das	Sitzfleisch

¹Now rare, see notes.