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German
Etymology
From earlier hagebüchen, from Middle High German hagenbüechīn, made from gnarly Hagebuche (“hornbeam”) wood.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hanebüchen (strong nominative masculine singular hanebüchener, comparative hanebüchener, superlative am hanebüchensten)
- absurd; ludicrous; incongruous
- Synonyms: absurd, abstrus, aberwitzig, abwegig, haarsträubend
- hanebüchener Unsinn ― utter nonsense
2014 April 8, Hans von der Hagen, “"Die mächtigste Kennzahl der Menschheitsgeschichte"”, in Süddeutsche Zeitung:Petty interessierte, wie viel Geld in den einzelnen Gesellschaftsschichten im Umlauf war und wie viel die Krone davon abschöpfen konnte. Aber seine Statistiken waren hanebüchen.- Petty was interested in how much money there was in circulation among the different social classes and how much of it the Crown could skim off. But his statistics were absurd.
- outrageous; scandalous
- Synonyms: unerhört, unsäglich, unverschämt
- eine hanebüchene Frechheit ― an outrageous insolence
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