Feminine

Glatze

Meaning

  1. (feminine) baldness, bald head
  2. (feminine, slang) skinhead

Concepts

bald head

shaven head

close-cropped hair

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

fliegeschlyffi

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

leffelschlyffi

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈɡlat͡sə]
Etymology

From Middle High German glatz, from Old High German glaz (“braincase; weathered skull”). According to Duden and Pfeifer, derived from glatt (“smooth, sleek”), however with unexpected /ts/, perhaps from dialectal formation.

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