Feminine
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Strippe

  1. (feminine, regional) string, cord
  2. (especially, feminine) a short string for pulling, as in a marionette or a jumping jack toy
  3. (colloquial, feminine) wire, cable, line
  4. (broadly, colloquial, feminine) telephone connection

Frequency

36k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʃtʁɪpə/
Etymology

In summary

From a merger of two words: 1.) Middle Low German strippe (“strip, cord”), cognate with Dutch strip, English strip, and related with German Streifen, and 2.) Middle High German struppe, strüppe, northern variant of strupfe, strüpfe (“leather loop”), borrowed from Latin struppus (“strap, band”), cognate with Dutch strop.

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