spießig

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German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Spießer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpiːsɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpiːsɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
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  • Hyphenation: spie‧ßig

Adjective

spießig (strong nominative masculine singular spießiger, comparative spießiger, superlative am spießigsten)

  1. square, bourgeois (socially conventional)
    • 2017 March 24, Tania Martini, quoting Nora Bossong, “Nora Bossong über Lust und Macht: Auf der Suche nach dem kleinen Tod”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
      Das waren irgendwann mal Orte, die Libertinage versinnbildlichen sollten, aber in dem Swingerclub schien es mir fast spießiger als in einer Kleingartenkolonie.
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Declension

Further reading

  • spießig” in Duden online
  • spießig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache