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German
Etymology
Borrowed from German Low German. A reduplication of öte (“affected, finical”), dialectally ete, possibly influenced by French peut-être (“maybe”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
etepetete (indeclinable, predicative only)
- (informal, usually only predicative) hoity-toity, finical, affected, stilted
- Synonym: geziert
1969, Frank Wedekind, Werke: Dramen 1:Die einen sind hopp-hopp und die andern sind etepetete. Hermann: Ich bin Ihrer Ansicht nach natürlich etepetete. Anna: Wenn Sie nicht einmal sagen dürfen, wozu Sie all das viele Geld nötig haben... Hermann: Jedenfalls nicht, weil ich ...- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Indeclinable, predicative-only.
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