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English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Backfisch (“teenage girl”, literally “fish for baking”).
Pronunciation
Noun
backfisch (plural backfische or backfisches)
- A teenage or late-adolescent girl.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 1, page 115:I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, […]
Translations
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Backfisch, used in Swedish in the first two-thirds of the 20th century, but removed from more recent editions of SAOL.
Noun
backfisch c
- (dated) a backfisch
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