An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Dachtel

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Dachs

An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis

Dachtel

dahlen

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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry Dachtel.

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2518631An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, D — DachtelJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

Dachtel, feminine, ‘box on the ear’; like Ohrfeige, properly a euphemism used in jest for a blow. Dachtel is an older (Middle High German) form for Dattel. Compare further the term Kopfnüsse, ‘blows on the head,’ the original sense of which expresses, of course, something different from what is usually understood by the word. See Nuß.