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German
Etymology
From Backpfeife + -n- + Gesicht. Compare French tête à claques.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbakp͡faɪ̯fənɡəˌzɪçt/
- Hyphenation: Back‧pfei‧fen‧ge‧sicht
Noun
Backpfeifengesicht n (strong, genitive Backpfeifengesichtes or Backpfeifengesichts, plural Backpfeifengesichter)
- (colloquial) a slappable face, a face "in need of a punch"
- 1973, Aus dem Leben grosser Clowns. Ihre Aufzeichnungen und Erinnerungen, republ. by Helga Bemmann, page 198.
Ohne sein Backpfeifengesicht wäre Grimaldi ein Nichts gewesen.- Without his eminently smackable face, Grimaldi would have been a nobody.
Declension
Declension of Backpfeifengesicht