Pausbacke

Meaning

chubby facial cheek with a red/reddish complexion (especially of a child)

Translations

bajoue

moflete

cachete

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

pfuusbagge

Basel-Landschaft

pfuusibagge

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈpaʊ̯sˌbakə]

Etymology

* The word is documented since the 16th century. It is a compound formed with the noun Backe and the stem of an obsolete verb whose (West Central German) Late Middle High German form was pūsen (see pusten) and whose Early New High German equivalent was pausen, bausen ‘to be blown-up; to billow, to distend; to swell; to be full of, to be bursting with’. In Early New High German these forms were merged with the verb bauschen whose Middle High German equivalents were biuschen and būschen ‘to beat, to knock’ which was influenced semantically by them (see bauschen).