Feminine
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Schnecke
- (feminine) snail, slug
- (feminine, slang) an attractive woman; chick
- (feminine, informal) a slow person, sluggard
- (feminine) the cochlea in the inner ear
- (feminine, slang) female genitalia, pussy
- (feminine) a screw or worm thread
- (feminine) scroll (the carved wooden spiral at the end of a stringed instrument's fingerboard)
- (feminine) pastry in the form of a snail
- (feminine) volute of a column
- (feminine) fusee
- (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
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
gluudi
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.
Gastropode
Cochlea
Kochlea
Bauchfüßer
Pussy
Muschelhorn
Ohrschnecke
Meeresschnecke
ślimak
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