abgeschmackt

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from German abgeschmackt.

Adjective

abgeschmackt (comparative more abgeschmackt, superlative most abgeschmackt)

  1. Outrageous; tasteless.
    • 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. , →OCLC, pages 341–342:
      The Buddha and Mohammed and their companions and many Christian saints are incrusted with a heavy jewellery of anecdotes which are meant to be honorific, but are simply abgeschmackt and silly, and form a touching expression of man's misguided propensity to praise.
    • 1935, Camillo Pellizzi, translated by Rowan Williams, English Drama: The Last Great Phase, Macmillan, page 154:
      The play, which did not have a success, has a dark, vibrant beauty of its own; it recalls Pirandello, and the abgeschmackt post-war German drama.

German

Etymology

Alteration of earlier abgeschmack (with the same meaning). Equivalent to ab- +‎ Geschmack (taste) +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈapɡəʃmakt/
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  • Hyphenation: ab‧ge‧schmackt

Adjective

abgeschmackt (strong nominative masculine singular abgeschmackter, comparative abgeschmackter, superlative am abgeschmacktesten)

  1. outrageous, tasteless, vulgar
    • 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Hexenküche”, in Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]‎:
      Nein, sage mir, was soll das werden? / Das tolle Zeug, die rasenden Geberden, / Der abgeschmackteste Betrug, / Sind mir bekannt, verhaßt genug.
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    • 1912 May 15, Erich Mühsam, chapter 3, in Tagebücher 1910–1924, published 1994, →ISBN:
      Als er heute nachmittag mich im Hofgarten noch mal deswegen stellte, wiederholte ich ihm, daß ich mit Leuten nichts zu tun haben will, die sich derartig abgeschmackter Roheiten schuldig machen.
      When he confronted me again this afternoon in the court garden, I repeated that I don't want to be involved with people who are found guilty such tasteless crudeness.
  2. corny, fatuous
    • 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 152:
      [] eine symmetrisch gebaute und abgeschmackte Operettenmelodie klang durch das Dunkel herüber, und Hans Castorp pfiff sie im Flüstertone mit (man kann ja flüsternd pfeifen), während er mit seinen kalten Füßen unter dem Federdeckbett den Takt dazu schlug.
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Descendants

  • English: abgeschmackt
  • Norwegian Bokmål: abgeschmackt

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German abgeschmackt (outrageous, tasteless, vulgar), from earlier abgeschmack (outrageous, tasteless, vulgar), equivalent to both ab-, from German ab (from), from Middle High German ab, from Old High German ab (of), from Proto-Germanic *ab (away, away from), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (off, away) + and Geschmack (taste, flavour), from Old High German gismac, gismah, smac from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz (taste, savour, smatch, flavour), from Proto-Indo-European *smeg- (taste), and -t (-ed).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /apɡəˈʃmakt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -akt
  • Hyphenation: ab‧ge‧schmackt

Adjective

abgeschmackt (neuter singular abgeschmackt, definite singular and plural abgeschmackte, comparative mer abgeschmackt, superlative mest abgeschmackt)

  1. (literary, obsolete) abgeschmackt; disgusting, gross, tasteless
    Synonyms: ekkel, smakløs
    • 1877, Arne Garborg, Den ny-norske Sprog- og Nationalitetsbevægelse, page 114:
      de, som har forsøgt [å skildre det nasjonale på dansk-norsk], har maattet knote, unaturligt lægge an paa norskhed, og det er baade abgeschmackt og usandt
      those who have tried , have had to knot, unnaturally rely on Norwegianness, and it is both abgeschmackt and untrue

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