wacker
See also: Wacker
English
Noun
wacker (plural wackers)
- (UK, Liverpudlian) A Liverpudlian; a resident of Liverpool, England.
- 1993, Anthony Griffiths, Scouse Wars, Bluecoat Press, →ISBN, page 6:
- Wackers are the inhabitants of the city of Liverpool – famed for their humour, football, dockers and judies. Wackers eat scouse and wet nellies. Wackers and Woollybacks are tough yet warm breeds. Although both are Northerners, they are different in many ways; culture and traditions and even language divides them.
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References
- “wacker”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
German
Etymology
From Middle High German wacker, Old High German wacchar. Cognate with Old English wacor (whence dialectal English waker), Old Norse wakr, Dutch wakker and possibly German Low German wacker.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvakɐ/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: wa‧cker; pre-1996: wak‧ker
Adjective
wacker (strong nominative masculine singular wackerer, comparative wackerer, superlative am wackersten) (dated)
- brave
- 1878, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches […] [Human, All Too Human], 80:
- […] in jenen Zeiten als die Häupter der griechischen Philosophie und die wackersten römischen Patrioten durch Selbsttödtung zu sterben pflegten.
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- honest, reputable
- Synonyms: rechtschaffen, ehrlich, anständig, redlich
- 1808, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: Der Tragödie erster Teil [Faust, Part One]:
- Ich gäb’ was drum, wenn ich nur wüßt’, / Wer heut der Herr gewesen ist! / Er sah gewiß recht wacker aus, / Und ist aus einem edlen Haus;
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- efficient
- Synonym: tüchtig
- alert, vigilant, waker
- Synonym: wachsam
- 1545, Luther-Bibel, Lukas 21:36:
- So seid nun wacker allezeit und betet, daß ihr würdig werden möget, zu entfliehen diesem allem, was geschehen soll, und zu stehen vor des Menschen Sohn.
- Watch ye therefore, and pray alwayes, that ye may be accompted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to passe, and to stand before the sonne of man.
Declension
Positive forms of wacker
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist wacker | sie ist wacker | es ist wacker | sie sind wacker | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | wackerer | wackere | wackeres | wackere |
| genitive | wackeren | wackerer | wackeren | wackerer | |
| dative | wackerem | wackerer | wackerem | wackeren | |
| accusative | wackeren | wackere | wackeres | wackere | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der wackere | die wackere | das wackere | die wackeren |
| genitive | des wackeren | der wackeren | des wackeren | der wackeren | |
| dative | dem wackeren | der wackeren | dem wackeren | den wackeren | |
| accusative | den wackeren | die wackere | das wackere | die wackeren | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein wackerer | eine wackere | ein wackeres | (keine) wackeren |
| genitive | eines wackeren | einer wackeren | eines wackeren | (keiner) wackeren | |
| dative | einem wackeren | einer wackeren | einem wackeren | (keinen) wackeren | |
| accusative | einen wackeren | eine wackere | ein wackeres | (keine) wackeren | |
Comparative forms of wacker
Superlative forms of wacker
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1883), “wacker”, in , John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
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