Masculine

Schusterjunge

Meaning

  1. (masculine, weak) A cobbler's son, a shoemaker's son.
  2. (masculine, weak) A cobbler's apprentice, a shoemaker's apprentice.
  3. (Berlin, dialectal, masculine, weak) A rye bread roll, rye roll, rye bun
  4. (masculine, weak) An orphan, an orphaned word, an orphaned line.
  5. (masculine, weak) A special, traditional costume worn at the Cologne Carnival (German: Kölner Karneval).

Concepts

Shoemaker’s boy

shoemaker's boy

Etymology

From Schuster + Junge.

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