Schlafmütze

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Etymology

schlafen (“to sleep”) +‎ Mütze (“hat”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃlaːfˌmʏtsə/
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  • Hyphenation: Schlaf‧müt‧ze

Noun

Schlafmütze f (genitive Schlafmütze, plural Schlafmützen)

  1. nightcap
    • 1826, Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, page 3; republished as Bayard Quincy, transl., Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing, 1955:
      Da trat der Vater aus dem Hause; er hatte schon seit Tagesanbruch in der Mühle rumort und die Schlafmütze schief auf dem Kopfe […]
      Suddenly my father came out; he had been making a rumpus in the mill since daybreak, and his nightcap sat awry on his head.
  2. (figuratively) slowcoach, sleepyhead
    • 2021 June 24, Bernhard Pötter, quoting Horst Köhler, “Bür­ge­r:in­nen gestalten Klimapolitik: Unterschätzt uns nicht”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN:
      Köhlers Fazit: „Die Bürger sind keine Schlafmützen, sie wollen sich kümmern.“
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Declension of Schlafmütze
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Schlafmütze die Schlafmützen
genitive einer der Schlafmütze der Schlafmützen
dative einer der Schlafmütze den Schlafmützen
accusative eine die Schlafmütze die Schlafmützen

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