verklickern

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German

Etymology

Verklicker (fly on the top of a ship showing wind direction) +‎ -n, from Low German. A similar notion is found in zeigen / wissen woher der Wind weht.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛɐ̯ˈklɪkɐn/
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Verb

verklickern (weak, third-person singular present verklickert, past tense verklickerte, past participle verklickert, auxiliary haben)

  1. (informal) to explain, to clarify
    • 2022 June 16, Jan Schroeder, “Kommunismus als Clickbait”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN:
      [] – was kein Zeichen dafür ist, wie vermeintlich „links“ die CDU damals war, wie Sahra Wagenknecht in ihrem Buch über Ludwig Erhard verklickern will.
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Conjugation

Further reading

  • verklickern” in Duden online
  • verklickern” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • verklickern” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • Gustav Goedel (1902) “Verklicker”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Seemannssprache (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, page 497