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German
Etymology
Late 20th century. Alteration of Fußball with the Central Franconian suffix -es, which forms informal or diminutive nouns. Compare Pöppes from Popo (“bum, buttocks”), Tünnes from Anton (name). Perhaps also influenced by fuppe (“to hop, hobble”).
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Noun
Fuppes m (strong, genitive Fuppes, no plural)
- (colloquial, regional, Rhineland) footy; football; soccer (the game as such)
2020, Sandmann, Monika & Udelhoven, Dirk, Fettnäpfchenführer Köln – Überleben zwischen Himmel un Ääd, Conbook Verlag, page 57:Der FC spielt auswärts. Auf der Jahnwiese kann ungestört Fuppes (Fußball) gespielt werden.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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- ^ Fasel, Andreas (2018) “Sprachforschung: Über Fuppes, beömmeln und den Muckefuck”, in welt.de (in German): “Peter Honnen sah sich eines Tages mit dem neuen Wort Fuppes konfrontiert, das seit den 90er-Jahren im Westen der Republik für Fußball und das Fußballspiel im Umlauf ist. ― One day Peter Honnen was confronted with the new word Fuppes, which has been in circulation in the West of the republic for football and the football game since the 90s .”