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German
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Polish Wacku, the vocative form of Wacek, which is the diminutive form of the given name Wacław, itself from Czech Václav, from Old Czech Venceslav, from Proto-Slavic *Vęťeslàvъ. Doublet of Wenzel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfat͡skə/
- Hyphenation: Fatz‧ke
Noun
Fatzke m (strong or weak, genitive Fatzkes or Fatzken, plural Fatzkes or Fatzken)
- (colloquial, derogatory) beau, dandy, fop, peacock, pompous twit (arrogant, vain man)
- Synonyms: Dandy, Geck, (chiefly Austria, fashionable in the 1880s) Gigerl, (colloquial) Lackaffe, (colloquial, derogatory) Laffe, (youth slang) Poser, Stutzer, Zierbengel
1905, Heinrich Mann, Professor Unrat oder Das Ende eines Tyrannen, Leipzig: Kurt Wolff Verlag, page 219:Die Künstlerin Fröhlich verhielt sich erschreckt und reumütig. Sie habe sich ganz gewiß nichts dabei gedacht. Jetzt habe es aber auch geschnappt, und die beiden Fatzken könnten allein zu den Wilden.- The artist Fröhlich acted startled and remorseful. She had certainly thought nothing of it. But now it had also snapped, and the two arrogant men could go alone to the savages.
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