nullachtfünfzehn
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See also: null-acht-fünfzehn
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From null + acht + fünfzehn, literally “zero eight fifteen”, from the name of MG 08/15, an early machine gun and standard issue for German soldiers during World War I.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nullachtfünfzehn (indeclinable)
- (colloquial, derogatory) standard-issue, garden variety, cookie-cutter, bog-standard
- 2008 December 2, Silke Burmester, “die wahrheit: Jahrestag der Liebe”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
- Hatte ja kurz vor dem Mono-Versprechen noch einen Neuzugang (erinnere den Namen nicht mehr, aber der war eh nullachtfünfzehn, der Rest allerdings war nullachtvierundzwanzig).
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- 2016, Tim Mälzer, Die Küche, Mosaik Verlag, →ISBN:
- Wenn heute jemand sagt: »Es gibt Huhn«, denkt jeder automatisch ans Nullachtfünfzehn-Hähnchen.
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Further reading
- “nullachtfünfzehn” in Duden online
- “nullachtfünfzehn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
08/15 (Redewendung) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
