Pitzeflicker
English translation: quack
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| 20:14 Apr 2, 2002 |
| German to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary / prisoners' language | |||||
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|  Selected response from: Johanna Timm, PhD Canada Local time: 14:50 | ||||
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| 4 | hospital screw (if female) |
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| 4 | Pizza Patcher |
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| 4 | whip swinger or whip |
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| 3 | screw |
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| 3 | quack |
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hospital screw (if female) Explanation: screws are the female wardens in a prison, if they guard the hospital, I suppose they are "hospital screws". Just a guess. |
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19 mins confidence:
Pizza Patcher Explanation: I can't find the word Pitze in any of my dictionaries, including Wahrig, Deutsches Wörterbuch. It seems possible to my that Pitze is Germanized Italian. |
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35 mins confidence:
screw Explanation: prisoners' nickname for prison officer of either gender in england |
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quack Explanation: After reading your explanation, I would think that Pitzeflicker is a derogative term describing a physician, not the prison guard(in analogy to Knochenflicker) jiddisch:pisseach 'lahm,krumm': 'jemanden so zurichten, daß er lahm und krumm daliegt' This detour led me to my suggestion *quack* / Quacksalber. Reference: http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~naeser/ra-mat.htm |
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3 hrs confidence:
whip swinger or whip Explanation: Pitze/Pfitze -> an old word for the sound a whip makes This might fit your context A more temporary use of the word? References are probably not appreciated here... |
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