Glossary entry (derived from question below)
May 9, 2003 19:44
21 yrs ago
German term
United Kingdom
Reliable German/French to English
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US) 
Works in: German to English, French to English
Mecki
German to English
Marketing
Mit der richtigen Pflege und ein paar einfachen Kniffen bekommst du deine Mähne oder deinen Mecki in den Griff.
(Hair care tips)
(Hair care tips)
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 | short crop |
Nicole Tata
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| 4 +7 | spikes |
IanW (X)
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| 4 +2 | crew cut |
Kim Metzger
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Proposed translations
14 hrs
Nicole Tata
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in German
&
English
United Kingdom
Transcreation, Marketing/PR, Literary
Native in: English 
, German
Works in: English to German, German to English
Related KudoZ points
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1326
Selected
short crop
My attempt at the whole sentence:
Long tresses or short crop – all you need to look good is the right haircare and a few simple tricks.
I am suggesting a more communicative version, after all this is a marketing text, perhaps from a magazine?
A Mecki is a short crop, so short in fact, that the hair stands up by itself resembling a hedghog. The way I see it, the text uses the colloquial Mähne and Mecki (alliteration?) to describe superlong vs supershort hair. I can't think of an equivalent way to convey this in English, hence I've opted for long tresses vs short crop.
hope it helps
Long tresses or short crop – all you need to look good is the right haircare and a few simple tricks.
I am suggesting a more communicative version, after all this is a marketing text, perhaps from a magazine?
A Mecki is a short crop, so short in fact, that the hair stands up by itself resembling a hedghog. The way I see it, the text uses the colloquial Mähne and Mecki (alliteration?) to describe superlong vs supershort hair. I can't think of an equivalent way to convey this in English, hence I've opted for long tresses vs short crop.
hope it helps
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+2
2 mins
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Mexico
Native in English
Mexico
Committed to Quality and Service
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
Related KudoZ points
:
22196
crew cut
According to Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Johanna Timm, PhD
: I think this is exactly it- a type of" cut". Spikes, on the other hand, are a hair"do". A crew cut can be fashioned into (short) spikes,
6 hrs
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Thanks. Now I don't feel so old any more. I thought maybe 'crew cuts' were a thing of the past.
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| agree |
Teresa Reinhardt
: This text simply makes a distinction between long and short hair using unambiguous (in German) colloquial synomyms' register is "flapsig"
1 day 19 hrs
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+7
3 mins
spikes
"spikes" or "spiky hairdo". "Mecki" means short, spiky, hedgehog-like hair.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Kathi Stock
: definitely
0 min
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| agree |
Wolf Brosius (X)
: Mecki&Micki are hedgehogs created by Steiff Knopf im Ohr.
7 mins
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| agree |
Edith Kelly
11 mins
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| agree |
Anglo-German (X)
: @Wolf: Nee, Steiff hat die nicht erfunden, sondern ein Hörzu-Karikaturist (German TV + radio magazine)
12 mins
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| agree |
swisstell
: and we had a creature of the sort in Switzerland called MUCKI
32 mins
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| agree |
Renate FitzRoy
: with Christiane
38 mins
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| agree |
arm_ro
12 hrs
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