An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/ballhornisieren

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B (1891)
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Friedrich Kluge2505918An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — ballhornisieren1891John Francis Davis

​ ballhornisieren, vb., 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.’

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