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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/ballhornisieren

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ballhornisieren, verb, verballhornen, ‘to make worse by altering’; derived from Ballhorn, a publisher in Lübeck (1531-1599), who in his ‘enlarged and improved' editions of an ABC book was always making fresh mistakes in his ‘emendations.’