hübsch

Meaning

pretty, handsome

Concepts

pretty

beautiful

nice

cute

neat

handsome

comely

lovely

nifty

good-looking

winsome

bonnie

gorgeous

elegant

trim

fair

good

sympathetic

alluring

charming

disarming

graceful

handsomely

easily

skillfully

sufficiently

well

refined

tidy

prettily

friendly

enough

pleasing

slim

delicious

kind

tasty

attractive

fine

great

pleasant

properly

cunningly

cutely

beauteous

bootiful

easy on the eyes

fayre

goodly

prettiful

pulchrous

splendiferous

gainly

Frequency

A2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/hʏpʃ/
Etymology

From Middle High German hübesch (“courtly”), from the root of modern Hof (“court”). Cognate with Yiddish היפּש (hipsh). The term was probably borrowed into written Middle High German from Middle Dutch hovesch via West Central German, in which process the Central German -v- was hypercorrectly replaced with -b-. The somewhat younger Middle High German hövesch, in line with hof (“court”), led to modern höfisch (“courtly”). For the semantic and phonetic development of this complex compare also Dutch hoofs (“courtly”) and heus (“polite; genuine”), Ripuarian Central Franconian höösch (“careful, slow”).

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