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German
Etymology
Sonntag (“Sunday”) + -s- + Schrift (“writing”)
The sense “tidy handwriting” was probably formed following Sonntagskleidung (“Sunday best”), from the aspect of tidiness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɔntaksˌʃʁɪft/
- Hyphenation: Sonn‧tags‧schrift
Noun
Sonntagsschrift f (genitive Sonntagsschrift, plural Sonntagsschriften)
- (colloquial) diligently tidy handwriting (often used in an ironic fashion)
Wie, du kannst das nicht lesen? Ich hab das doch in meiner schönsten Sonntagsschrift geschrieben.- Why, you can't read that? But I have written it in my prettiest handwriting.
1979, Matthias Laireiter, August Stockklausner, Unser Lesebuch 3, volume 3, page 53:„Na, eine Sonntagsschrift ist das gerade nicht", denkt sie beim Durchlesen.- "Well, this is certainly no calligraphy," she thinks while reading it.
- (dated) Sunday newspaper or magazine
1855 April 8, “Großbritannien”, in Allgemeine Zeitung, number 98, page 1555:Dabei rühmt sich die radicale Sonntagsschrift das erste englische Blatt gewesen zu seyn welches den Muth gehabt der Kossuth'schen Feder seine Spalten zu öffnen.- In doing so, the radical Sunday paper prides itself in being the English periodical that has had the courage to open the cracks in Kossuth's feathers.
1960, Otto Groth, Die unerkannte Kulturmacht. Das Wesen des Werkes, page 491:Allerdings heute ist dieser politisch-gesellschaftliche Einfluß der Familienzeitschriften und Revuen sehr stark hinter dem der Sonntagsschriften und Wochenmagazine zurückgetreten.- However, this political and social influence of the family magazines and general magazines has today fallen back very far behind that of the Sunday publications and the weeklies.
Declension
Declension of Sonntagsschrift