Feminine
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Schnecke

  1. (feminine) snail, slug
  2. (feminine, slang) an attractive woman; chick
  3. (feminine, informal) a slow person, sluggard
  4. (feminine) the cochlea in the inner ear
  5. (feminine, slang) female genitalia, pussy
  6. (feminine) a screw or worm thread
  7. (feminine) scroll (the carved wooden spiral at the end of a stringed instrument's fingerboard)
  8. (feminine) pastry in the form of a snail
  9. (feminine) volute of a column
  10. (feminine) fusee
  11. (feminine, rare) a stylized charge consisting of a tapering spiral inward from the edge to the centre of the shield, somewhat resembling the spiral on a snail's shell or a gurges

Frequency

C2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

gluudi

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

schnägg

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃnɛkə/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German snëcke, from Old High German sneggo, snecco, from Proto-Germanic *sneggô.

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