schnurstracks
German
Etymology
Schnur (“cord, line”) + stracks (“directly”)
Pronunciation
Adverb
schnurstracks
- straightway, straight, directly (going somewhere immediately and on the shortest way possible)
Synonyms
- While the dated simplex stracks is synonymous with sofort and thus chiefly temporal, schnurstracks also has a strongly spatial dimension.
Related terms
Further reading
- “schnurstracks” in Duden online